There is constantly bug with UIActionSheet.

Symptoms: Tapping on the action sheet does not work on the first tap. The subsequent tap works as expected.

Since long ago..

Back in 2009, UIActionSheet has a strange behaviour, whereby the tap area seems to have moved.

Solutions such as using showFromTabBar or show in window helped to solve Apple’s bug.

It wasn’t a good experience to have such glaring UI bug in Apple’s SDK.

iOS 8

In iOS 8, Apple introduced UIAlertController.

I have once again encountered strange behaviour, whereby I need to tap twice before I can tap a button on the action sheet.

Turned out the issue lies with my UITextField, which was the first responder before I present the action sheet.

When I present the action sheet, UIKit will dismiss the keyboard, then present the action sheet. But it didn’t do so properly. The first tap will somehow be ignored.

Solution:

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[textfield resignFirstResponder];
[self presentViewController:alert animated:YES completion:nil];

Before presenting the action sheet, manually resignFirstResponder first.