iOS8 Cannot hide cancel button on search bar in UISearchController

Question

My goal is to prevent the cancel button from appearing in a search bar in a UISearchController. I started with Apple\'s Table Search with UISearchController sample code and

Answer 1

Just subclass your UISearchController and do the following:

class CustomSearchController: UISearchController {

   override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
       super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()
       searchBar.showsCancelButton = false
   }
}

This was the easiest solution I could came up with in order to solve the flashing cancel-button issue.