UISearchBar presented by UISearchController in table header view animates too far when active

Question

I am using UISearchController to present a search bar inside the header view of a tableview:

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Answer 1

Ok so I finally figured out a solution for myself. Though it's more than likely we have other things in our code / storyboard (that's why this is a hard question to answer), for the most part I followed Apple's tutorial on UISearchController: (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/samplecode/TableSearch_UISearchController/Introduction/Intro.html)

Just about all my code is identical to theirs, but I couldn't get the search bar to not jump when clicking inside of it. So what I did was check "under opaque bars" for both the original table view and the search results table view in my storyboard. That got the search bar to stop jumping.

But there was one last issue, which was the fact that the first row of the results table view was hidden by the search bar. In order to fix that I added self.tableView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(kHeightOfTableViewCells, 0, 0, 0); to the viewDidLoad method of my results table view. Voila!