Prevent a UISearchDisplayController from hiding the navigation bar

Question

Whenever a user begins editing a UISearchDisplayController\'s search bar, the search controller becomes active and hides the view\'s navigation bar while presen

Answer 1

Since iOS 8.0 the same behavior can be achieved by setting the UISearchController's self.searchController.hidesNavigationBarDuringPresentation property to false.

The code in Swift looks like this:

searchController.hidesNavigationBarDuringPresentation = false

Answer 2

As jrc pointed out "unhook UISearchDisplayController from controlling any UISearchBar" seems to work for me. If I pass nil as a parameter when creating UISearchDisplayController the navigation bar stays visible at all times:

searchDisplayController = [[UISearchDisplayController alloc] initWithSearchBar:nil contentsController:self];

Answer 3

Really nice solution, but it was crashing my app under iOS6. I had to make the following modification to get it work.

@implementation ICSearchDisplayController

    - (void)setActive:(BOOL)visible animated:(BOOL)animated
    {
        if (visible == YES) {
            [super setActive:visible animated:animated];
            [self.searchContentsController.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:NO animated:NO];
        } else {
            [super setActive:NO animated:NO];
        }
    }

Answer 4

@Pavel's works perfectly well. However, I was trying to get this into a UIPopoverController and the text in the field gets pushed slightly when the search bar's text field becomes the first responder, and that looks a bit ugly, so I fixed it by calling the super method with animated set to NO.

Answer 5

I was adding custom navigation bar on my ViewController which was getting hidden on search, a quick but not so good fix was

- (void)searchBar:(UISearchBar *)searchBar textDidChange:(NSString *)searchText{
    [self.view addSubview:_navBar];
}

_navBar is UINavigationBar added programmatically, doing this helped me navigation bar from hiding.

Answer 6

The new UISearchController class introduced with iOS 8 has a property hidesNavigationBarDuringPresentation which you can set to false if you want to keep the navigation bar visible (by default it will still be hidden).