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

Of of the search bar delegate calls asks you to accept a change from an old value to a new one - you could detect that the new value was nil, along with the old value being not-nil, and an indicator that the user had not typed anything since the keyboard was last up - then in that case resign first responder for the search bar. Not sure if the keyboard will momentarily display though.

I have a very similar situation and may try that myself.