UISearchController searchBar showsCancelButton not being respected

Question

I\'ve added a UISearchController to my application and set it\'s searchBar to the titleView of my navigationItem.

This works but I am seeing t

Answer 1

It may be helpful to note that this has changed on iOS 13 and quote Apple's documentation on showsCancelButton, currently only available on UISearchBar.h and not on developer.apple.com

/* New behavior on iOS 13.
 If the search bar is owned by a UISearchController, then using the setter
 for this property (as well as -setShowsCancelButton:animated:) will implicitly
 set the UISearchController's automaticallyShowsCancelButton property to NO.
 */

automaticallyShowsCancelButton has been introduced on iOS 13.0 and should clarify what @pbasdf had already pointed out in his answer: that the buggy behavior is something intrinsic to UISearchController.