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

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Answer 1

You could do this:

- (void)searchBarCancelButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)searchBar {
    [self enableCancelButton];
}

- (void)enableCancelButton {
    for (UIView *view in _seachBar.subviews) {
        if ([view isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]) {
            [(UIButton *)view setEnabled:YES];
        }
    }
}

BUT this is a pretty hackish method and I'm fairly certain it's generally frowned upon by Apple and could potentially lead to the app being rejected. As far as I know, there doesn't seem to be any other way to do what you're trying to do.