Navigation bar becomes white when a UISearchController is added to it

Question

When I add a UISearchController to a UINavigationItem from an UINavigationController; it becomes white when the view loads and changes to the color specified when the user c

Answer 1

It looks like it is required to use the new UINavigationBarAppearance on iOS 13. Try to add this to your viewDidLoad:

let appearance = UINavigationBarAppearance()
appearance.backgroundColor = .systemRed
appearance.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor : UIColor.white]
navigationItem.standardAppearance = appearance
navigationItem.scrollEdgeAppearance = appearance

You will probably also want to set the searchField backgroundColor:

let searchField = searchController.searchBar.searchTextField
searchField.backgroundColor = .systemBackground