UISearchBar cancel button color?

Question

When I drop a UISearchBar into my view inside Interface Builder, and change its style to Black Opaque, the cancel button stays unfittingly blue / gray and doesn\'t become bl

Answer 1

Came up with a following solution and it is working on iOS 13.0 and iOS 12.4 as well, must be working on prior versions to till iOS 9.0. The following solution is for:

1. Cancel Button Color (Normal State).
2. Cancel Button Color (Disabled State).
3. Search Bar Text Field Background Color (Normal State).

For Objective C:

[[UIBarButtonItem appearanceWhenContainedInInstancesOfClasses:@[[UISearchBar class]]] setTintColor:[UIColor whiteColor]]; 

[[UIBarButtonItem appearanceWhenContainedInInstancesOfClasses:@[[UISearchBar class]]] setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName: [UIColor whiteColor]} forState:UIControlStateNormal];

[[UIBarButtonItem appearanceWhenContainedInInstancesOfClasses:@[[UISearchBar class]]] setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName: [UIColor whiteColor]} forState:UIControlStateDisabled];

[[UIBarButtonItem appearanceWhenContainedInInstancesOfClasses:@[[UISearchBar class]]] setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSBackgroundColorAttributeName: [UIColor whiteColor]} forState:UIControlStateNormal];

The above code also fixed my UI issues for iOS 13 and iPhone X. I included this code in my AppDelegate.m class in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions function, so that the changes could be done in the whole app.