Cursor invisible in UISearchBar iOS 7

Question

I have UISearchBar in UITableView as a table header. When I push the UISearchBar for start searching, this method is being triggered

Answer 1

If you want the cursor and cancel button to be different colors...

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Start by setting the view's tint color (not the bar tint) in the storyboard editor, which will be applied to both the cursor and cancel button.

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To make the cursor a different color, you need to do it programatically. The text field is nested a couple levels down in the searchBar's subviews. Use this setTextFieldTintColor helper function to traverse all of the subviews.

@IBOutlet weak var searchBar: UISearchBar!

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    // set tint color for all subviews in searchBar that are of type UITextField
    setTextFieldTintColor(to: UIColor.darkText, for: searchBar)
}    

func setTextFieldTintColor(to color: UIColor, for view: UIView) {
    if view is UITextField {
        view.tintColor = color
    }
    for subview in view.subviews {
        setTextFieldTintColor(to: color, for: subview)
    }
}

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The end result looks like this: