How do you dismiss a UISearchController ? (iOS 8 and follow)

Question

This must be trivial, but I can\'t find how you\'re supposed to dismiss a UISearchController programmatically?

Note that it\'s the new UISearchController (introduced

Answer 1

OK so after more testing, turns out you just have to set:

searchController.active = false
// or swift 4+
searchController.isActive = false

This is the first thing I tried but I called it in one of the UISearchControllerDelegate methods which didn't work (probably should have called it with dispatch_async (halbano's answer seems to confirm that)).

Anyway, since I couldn't find that answer online, I'm answering my own question, I hope that it'll help someone.