UISearchBar search icon isnot left aligned in iOS7

Question

In iOS7 the search icon and place holder text are always appearing in middle.I tried changing the text alignment of the text field in search bar to left but it didn\'t work.

Answer 1

This is not a good solution but it works. (Test on iOS 9)

import UIKit

class MySearchBar: UISearchBar {

    override func layoutSubviews() {
        super.layoutSubviews()
        if let l = getTextFieldLabel() {
            l.addObserver(self, forKeyPath: "frame", options: .New, context: nil)
        }
        if let i = getIcon() {
            i.addObserver(self, forKeyPath: "frame", options: .New, context: nil)
        }
    }

    override func observeValueForKeyPath(keyPath: String?, ofObject object: AnyObject?, change: [String : AnyObject]?, context:     UnsafeMutablePointer) {

        if let l = object as? UILabel {
            l.removeObserver(self, forKeyPath: "frame")
            l.frame = CGRect(x: 29, y: 1, width: 323, height: 25)
            l.addObserver(self, forKeyPath: "frame", options: .New, context: nil)
        }

        if let i = object as? UIImageView {
            i.removeObserver(self, forKeyPath: "frame")
            i.frame = CGRect(x: 8, y: 7.5, width: 13, height: 13)
            i.addObserver(self, forKeyPath: "frame", options: .New, context: nil)
        }
    }

    func getTextFieldLabel() -> UILabel? {
        for v in self.allSubViews(self) {
            if NSStringFromClass(v.dynamicType) == "UISearchBarTextFieldLabel" {
                return v as? UILabel
            }
        }
        return nil
    }

    func getIcon() -> UIImageView? {
        for v in self.allSubViews(self) {
            if NSStringFromClass(v.dynamicType) == "UIImageView" {
                return v as? UIImageView
            }
        }
        return nil
    }

    func allSubViews( v : UIView!) -> [UIView] {
        var views : [UIView] = []
        views += v.subviews
        for s in v.subviews {
            views += allSubViews(s)
        }
        return views
    }    
}