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

After UISearchDisplayController deprecated in iOS8, Apple give handle search presentation to UISearchControllerDelegate.

so you can override searchBar to hide the Cancel button, like below :

- (void)didPresentSearchController:(UISearchController *)searchController {
    [searchController.searchBar setShowsCancelButton:NO];
}

if you need hidden Cancel button from inactive state, you need set searchBar on init :

search = [[UISearchController alloc] initWithSearchResultsController:nil];
[search.searchBar setShowsCancelButton:NO];