Hiding Cancel button on search bar in UISearchController

Question

I\'m trying to hide the Cancel button of the search bar in the UISearchController, but unfortunately setting the following in viewDidLoad() does not work:

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Answer 1

The same answer as given by @Griffith and @Abhinav but using extension:

extension UISearchBar {
    override open func layoutSubviews() {
        super.layoutSubviews()
        setShowsCancelButton(false, animated: false)
    }
}

This code is from Swift 4.

Answer 2

Hide the Cancel button in search bar delegate methods and set your delegate searchController.searchBar.delegate=self UISearchBarDelegate

func searchBarTextDidBeginEditing(searchBar: UISearchBar) {

}

func searchBarTextDidEndEditing(searchBar: UISearchBar) {

}

Answer 3

Try subclassing UISearchBar and implement:

override func layoutSubviews() {
   super.layoutSubviews()
   self.setShowsCancelButton(false, animated: false)
}

This SO thread may help you more in this direction.

Answer 4

func didPresentSearchController(_ searchController: UISearchController) {
    searchController.searchBar.becomeFirstResponder()
    searchController.searchBar.showsCancelButton = true
}


func didDismissSearchController(_ searchController: UISearchController) {
    searchController.searchBar.showsCancelButton = false
}

In my case all the above solutions dint work. You need to show in didPresentSearchController and hide it in didDismissSearchController. Earlier I was just hiding in didDismissSearchController which was still showing Cancel button on cancelling.

Answer 5

Rejoice! As of iOS 13, there is access to automaticallyShowsCancelButton on UISearchController. Set it to false to hide the cancel button.

Answer 6

I ended up subclassing both UISearchBar and UISearchController as suggested:

CustomSearchBar.swift

import UIKit

class CustomSearchBar: UISearchBar {

    override func layoutSubviews() {
        super.layoutSubviews()
        setShowsCancelButton(false, animated: false)
    }
}

CustomSearchController.swift

import UIKit

class CustomSearchController: UISearchController, UISearchBarDelegate {

    lazy var _searchBar: CustomSearchBar = {
        [unowned self] in
        let result = CustomSearchBar(frame: CGRectZero)
        result.delegate = self

        return result
    }()

    override var searchBar: UISearchBar {
        get {
            return _searchBar
        }
    }
}