I recently encountered this problem, the solution above, with manually capturing the necessary focus with nextFocus(), will solve the problem, but not the root cause. I think in most cases the problem is that the screen contains icons (for example, the field clear icon) that also capture focus, so the correct solution is to minimize all such widgets in ExcludeFocus, this will allow you to switch to the next one automatically. Please bump this answer up a notch, thanks.