Hide UISearchBar Cancel Button

Question

I have a UISearchDisplayController and UISearchBar hooked up to my ViewController via Outlets from my nib.

I\'d like to hide the cancel button so that the user never

Answer 1

Had this problem when using the UISearchBar with UISearchController. I'm using my own cancel button, as the cancel button wasn't showing on iPad with showsCancelButton = YES, now it won't hide on iPhone with showsCancelButton = NO!

The following worked for me.

Set the delegate, and initial value:

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    // ... 
    self.searchController.searchBar.showsCancelButton = NO;
    self.searchController.searchBar.delegate = self;
}

Reset showsCancelButton to NO 0.1s after the text bar begins editing.

#pragma mark - UISearchBarDelegate
- (void)searchBarTextDidBeginEditing:(UISearchBar *)searchBar
{
    dispatch_after(dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, 0.1 * NSEC_PER_SEC), dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
        self.searchController.searchBar.showsCancelButton = NO;
    });
}