UISearchController searchBar showsCancelButton not being respected

Question

I\'ve added a UISearchController to my application and set it\'s searchBar to the titleView of my navigationItem.

This works but I am seeing t

Answer 1

This appears to be a bug in iOS. The same behavior I've described can be seen in the example project supplied by Apple

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/samplecode/TableSearch_UISearchController/Introduction/Intro.html

The documentation states that the default for this is NO but this doesn't seem to be the case. Setting showsCancelButton to NO seems to have no effect.

I have filed a radar for this and am waiting to hear back.