react-native: TextInput doesn't lose focus after dismissing keyboard on some Android devices

Any updates on this?

Unfortunately, no

I managed to work around by adding a ref to the text input and a keyboard listener to blur the text input when the keyboard hide. Here is the logic:

  const localInputRef = useRef<TextInput>();
  
  const keyboardDidHideCallback = () => {
     localInputRef.current.blur?.();   
  }

  useEffect(() => {
     const keyboardDidHideSubscription = Keyboard.addListener('keyboardDidHide', keyboardDidHideCallback);

     return () => {
      keyboardDidHideSubscription?.remove();
    };
  }, []);

 <TextInput
       ref={(ref) => {
          localInputRef && (localInputRef.current = ref as any);
       }}
 .....
 </TextInput>

still happening in “react-native”: “0.71.3”

Do you still experience this issue?

I have four years of experience maintaining facebook/react-native and I specialize in the Text and TextInput components. I currently have 58 facebook/react-native PRs.

If you still experience this issue, I will prepare a patched release with the fix.

Thanks a lot

I am experiencing the same issue. @fabOnReact

we also experience same issue on Android, When user press native back button to close keyboard, textinput of react native stays focused.

Unfortunately that solution doesn’t work for me, because it suggests to make a handler for each TextInput in every React Naive project.