UISearchBar increases navigation bar height in iOS 11

Question

I have my UISearchBar being part of the navigation bar like:

 let searchBar = UISearchBar()
 //some more configuration to the search bar
 .....
         


        

Answer 1

I tried various things to get the size back to the original 44, but then the search bar always looks and behaves weird - like being to far stretched, y-offset and alike.

I found a nice solution here (via some other stackoverflow post): https://github.com/DreamTravelingLight/searchBarDemo

Just derive your viewcontroller from the SearchViewController and include in your project the SearchViewController and WMSearchbar classes. Worked out of the box for me without any ugly if (iOS11) else... uglyness.