Make UISearchBar background clear

Question

I am not able to clear search bar I have tried to make it clear by setting its background color clear and I have also placed one image under searchbar

I have also ma

Answer 1

For iOS 12, swift 4.x A bit too hacky but Debug view hierarchy shows _UISearchBarSearchFieldBackgroundView is responsible to the background color. To get to it, ...

for subview in searchBar.subviews.last!.subviews {
   if subview.isKind(of: NSClassFromString("UISearchBarTextField")!) {
       for v in subview.subviews {
          if v.isKind(of: NSClassFromString("_UISearchBarSearchFieldBackgroundView")!) {
                  v.removeFromSuperview()
                }
            }
        }
    }

This is all too hacky. I prefer asking designer to accept Apple default color.