UISearchBar change placeholder color

Question

Has anyone any idea or code sample on how can I change the text color of the placeholder text of a UISearchBar?

Answer 1

iOS 13

Previous solutions may not work on iOS 13 because new searchTextField has been added, and you can set attributed string on it.

I wrapped that into category:

@interface UISearchBar (AttributtedSetter)
- (void)setThemedPlaceholder:(NSString*)localizationKey;
@end

@implementation UISearchBar (AttributtedSetter)

- (void)setThemedPlaceholder:(NSString*)localizationKey {
    ThemeObject *currentTheme = [[ThemeManager standardThemeManager] currentTheme];
    self.searchTextField.attributedPlaceholder = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:NSLocalizedString(localizationKey, @"") attributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName : currentTheme.colorSearchBarText}];
}

@end