Chat & keyboard gets stuck on mobile after teleporting

[CrimsonForce (Kyle)]

If you’re typing a chat message on mobile and then teleport to a new place, the keyboard stays open on your screen no matter what you do until you force close out of the Roblox app. I was able to replicate it 100% of the time on touchscreen devices. I tried to fix this by disabling chat right before the user teleports, but the issue still persists.

[bvetterdays (roman)]

Already reported:

On iOS, focusing on a text box before teleport bugs the keyboard

On iOS, if one focuses on a text box, e.g. the chat input bar, before they get teleported to another game/server, the system keyboard would stay on-screen and it cannot be closed, nor can the person focus on another text box. This can only be fixed by closing the Roblox client. Expected behavior The keyboard should close upon teleportation.

Keyboard and chat input gets stuck if you have keyboard open while teleporting

Repro steps: Have the mobile keyboard out before you load into the place you’re teleported to. The keyboard will be stuck on your screen so you are unable to press move or jump, cannot enter a message into chat, and basically have to rejoin. In addition, it seems the chat input also comes with you as you teleport. It is as if it overlays the old chat input with the new chat in the place. Here’s an example: [image] (the chat does fade away a bit so you won’t see the box after but “Type here…

[S1LENTM0DE (YoSilent)]

I’ve had this happen to me before. Not necessary to close out roblox. Just click the roblox icon then exit out the icon and click chat again. Not sure it works for everyone. Can’t fully remember steps but yeah.

[CrimsonForce (Kyle)]

I found a really stupid fix you can do on the developer side of this.

Right before the player is teleported, check if the player is currently focused on a TextBox using UserInputService:GetFocusedTextBox(). If it returns a textbox, we can just assume it’s the chat because trying to access the chat instance throws an error. So create a new TextBox, run :CaptureFocus() & then :ReleaseFocus() on it, and it solves the previous issue.

This method also brings up a new bug however, because running :CaptureFocus() on a different textbox when the player is typing in the chat also forces their unfinished message to send in the chat.