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# UIKeyboardLayoutGuide

A layout guide that represents the space the keyboard occupies in your app’s layout.

```
@MainActor class UIKeyboardLayoutGuide
```

## Overview

Configure the keyboard layout guide, and activate or deactivate constraints so your app’s layout adjusts to the keyboard in different situations. See [Adjusting your layout with keyboard layout guide](/documentation/UIKit/adjusting-your-layout-with-keyboard-layout-guide) for an example of how to dynamically respond to keyboard presentation, dismissal, and movement.

## Topics

### Supporting floating and undocked keyboards

[`followsUndockedKeyboard`](/documentation/UIKit/UIKeyboardLayoutGuide/followsUndockedKeyboard)

A Boolean value that determines if the layout guide tracks the keyboard when it’s undocked from the bottom of the screen.

### Adjusting dismissal sensitivity

[`keyboardDismissPadding`](/documentation/UIKit/UIKeyboardLayoutGuide/keyboardDismissPadding)

A value that adds padding above the keyboard to increase the size of the touch area for the scrolling dismissal gesture.

### Configuring safe area usage

[`usesBottomSafeArea`](/documentation/UIKit/UIKeyboardLayoutGuide/usesBottomSafeArea)

A Boolean value that indicates whether the layout guide uses the view’s safe area layout guide.


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