becomeFirstResponder() is not bringing up the keyboard - Swift 5 - iOS 14

Question

I am really fresh in Swift coding. Hoping someone knows what is going wrong here. In the code below, I am trying to bring up the keyboard when its loaded - Seems to be working on iPhone SE Simulator, however its not working in iPhone 11 Simulator. Please let me know if more details are needed.

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {
    
    @IBOutlet weak var textField: UITextField!
    
    @IBOutlet weak var labelPasteboard: UILabel!
    
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        textField.becomeFirstResponder()
        
    }

    @IBAction func trashPressed(_ sender: Any) {
        textField.text = ""
    }
    @IBAction func buttonPressed(_ sender: Any) {
        labelPasteboard.text = "Hello \(textField.text!)"
    
    }
    
}

Answer 1

in your viewDidLoad the controller does don't know about your textField

try add

textField.becomeFirstResponder()

in viewWillAppear or viewDidAppear methods

Answer 2

You need to ensure that in the simulator menu under I/O > Keyboard, make sure that Connect Hardware Keyboard is unticked. Sometimes it will automatically default to using your machine keyboard instead of using the software keyboard.