On iOS 7 UISearchBar left align placeholder text?

Question

On iOS 7 UISearchBar the placeholder text is centred and I want to disable that and make it always stick to the left like it was before.

Answer 1

I haven't tried it with a UISearchBar but this works with a UITextField. I Subclassed it and overrode leftViewRectForBounds:, textRectForBounds: and editingRectForBounds:, here is the code:

- (CGRect)textRectForBounds:(CGRect)bounds {
  CGRect inset = CGRectMake(bounds.origin.x + kLeftTextPadding,
                        bounds.origin.y,
                        bounds.size.width - kLeftTextPadding,
                        bounds.size.height);
  return inset;
}

Hope it helps.