UISearchbar clearButton forces the keyboard to appear

Question

I have a UISearchBar which acts as a live filter for a table view. When the keyboard is dismissed via endEditing:, the query text and the gray circular \"clear\" button rem

Answer 1

A Swift version of @boliva 's answer.

class MySearchContentController: UISearchBarDelegate {

    private var searchBarShouldBeginEditing = true

    func searchBar(_ searchBar: UISearchBar, textDidChange searchText: String) {
        searchBarShouldBeginEditing = searchBar.isFirstResponder
    }

    func searchBarShouldBeginEditing(_ searchBar: UISearchBar) -> Bool {
        defer {
            searchBarShouldBeginEditing = true
        }
        return searchBarShouldBeginEditing
    }
}