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

Use UISearchControllerDelegate.

func willPresentSearchController(_ searchController: UISearchController) {

        searchController.searchBar.setValue("", forKey:"_cancelButtonText")
    }