TextBox can't be focused for some time after input was lost

[grilme99 (brooke)]

Give developers direct control over TextBox focus state

After a recent update of either IOS or Roblox itself every way I’ve found to circumvent this issue doesn’t work anymore. This means that I have to wait for more than 500ms to get the keyboard to popup again after textbox focus is lost. This completely ruins the flow in my upcoming ‘app’ on the Roblox platform. Exposing this (currently private) API would fix all these issues from my point of view. The fix @grilme99 and team implemented for ‘Clip It’ seems to be broken as well on my device (iPho…

As of a recent update, TextBoxes cannot be focused using CaptureFocus for some period of time (500ms?) after they lose focus. This is affecting all of our mobile players on Clip It and is having a major impact on our creators.

Expected behavior

Developers should be able to call CaptureFocus immediately after focus is lost to stop the keyboard from disappearing. There should be no grace period before the keyboard can be focused again.

[thirdtakeonit]

Thanks for the report! We’ll follow up when we have an update for you.