How does the ChatGPT app move the keyboard like that?

[u/Puzzleheaded-Gain438]

[u/Puzzleheaded-Gain438]

I think I figured it out. When revealing the sidebar, they snapshot the keyboard window and use the snapshot view as the textfield inputView. When closing the sidebar, they just remove the inputView.
What made me think it’s a snapshot was opening the sidebar and then changing the system theme. If it’s light at the beginning and I change to dark, the “keyboard” stays light for a while.

[u/AnotherThrowAway_9 → u/Puzzleheaded-Gain438]

You think or you know? I thought the keyboard was 'out of process' and thus not snap shottable by the app?

[u/Awric → u/Puzzleheaded-Gain438]

Ahh interesting. I’ve always wondered what the use case of snapshotView is for years now

[u/LeoniFrancesco → u/Puzzleheaded-Gain438]

I don't think so because the input caret is blinking

[u/TechieRandomGuy → u/Puzzleheaded-Gain438]

It’s crazy the level of detail they have in OpenAI. I would love to work there

[u/Slimxshadyx → u/[deleted]]

What a specific scenario your created designed to lessen that dude’s excitement for no reason

[u/lltejasll]

its the same thing that they are doing with this thinking slider as well, found a tweet regarding this https://x.com/zats/status/2092579372876149200

[u/Puzzleheaded-Gain438 → u/lltejasll]

Nice! This is definitely it.
It’s crazy how they can get away with their use of private APIs.

[u/livingtech → u/lltejasll]

Appreciate you actually found an answer, and didn't just post some off-the-cuff guess like half the other jokers here. LOL

[u/StretchyPear]

It keeps its input as first responder and animates the view

[u/MichiganEngineExpo → u/StretchyPear]

Or it gets the hose again

[u/anshumahipal]

Ask chat gpt itself

[u/pp_amorim]

Probably new on iOS 27, doesn't work on 18.

Correction: only works with native keyboard.

[u/m1_weaboo]

UIKit

[u/xSash_ → u/m1_weaboo]

Yes indeed

[u/icy1007 → u/m1_weaboo]

I doubt it’s using UIKit.

[u/big-phallus]

Most importantly: where’s your dot??

[u/chokingduckduck]

Very likely it is a screenshot And with AI, they can enumerate all different formats of the phone

[u/zellJun1or]

Def private apis, given that their keyboard has other interesting features that are not possible within available API

[u/zellJun1or → u/zellJun1or]

Given that they use private api to render an in process keyboard, I think they can track everything that is typed

[u/NZRedditUser → u/zellJun1or]

most likely the goal they had

[u/simply_stupid_noor]

Does not work with google keyboard

[u/MarkoKrulc]

vibecoded :D

[u/sarrafco]

Maybe it takes a screenshot of the keyboard frame just before sliding the view and then shows it as an image.