How do you keep the cancel button in the search bar enabled when the keyboard is dismissed?

Question

Answer 1

Since iOS 7 all the subview of UISearchBar are one level deeper. This should work:

for (UIView *subView in searchBar.subviews) {
    for (UIView *secondLevelSubview in subView.subviews) {
        if ([view isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]) {
           [(UIButton *)view setEnabled:YES];
        }
}

Still hacky and can easily break in the next iOS version.