Change UISearchBar cancel button text in iOS 8

Question

I\'d like to change the text from "Cancel" to "Done" of the Cancel button inside the UISearchBar in iOS 8. I am using UISearchControll

Answer 1

I know this may seem to be a bit irrelevant but in my opinion this is safer than using private apis and more efficient than taking a dive into the unknown views. This solution makes sense only if you have your own localisation engine and you do want Apple to follow your mechanism all over the app. Basically my idea is to switch the language the iOS SDK uses to localise the button by altering the "AppleLanguages" key in the NSUserDefaults. You can go here for more information about how this works.

[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setObject:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"en", @"fr", nil] forKey:@"AppleLanguages"];
[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] synchronize];

Put this code to use the English localisation and a French fallback no matter what language is set on the phone. This only takes effect within the app.