Can the height of the UISearchbar TextField be modified?

Question

I\'m testing out my UI and I find the search bar a little bit too narrow for my liking. I also want to make sure people with poorer vision or poorer manual dexterity have n

Answer 1

I've found the accepted answer to be buggy at times.
This is how i've solved the issue of having a custom height for the searchBar: I have set a colour image with the size I want and added it to the searchBar's textField in viewDidLoad:

let image = getImageWithColor(UIColor.whiteColor(), size: CGSizeMake(600, 60))
searchBar.setSearchFieldBackgroundImage(image, forState: .Normal)

Followed with this func taken from here

func getImageWithColor(color: UIColor, size: CGSize) -> UIImage {
    var rect = CGRectMake(0, 0, size.width, size.height)
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(size, false, 0)
    color.setFill()
    UIRectFill(rect)
    var image: UIImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
    return image
}