ViewWillDisappear not getting called searchcontroller

Question

When I\'m in the middle of a search and then switch UItabs, ViewWillDisappear does not get called. Any idea as to why ViewWillDisappear does not get called when I have filtere

Answer 1

Had the same issue. viewWillDisappear is not called on the UITableViewController, but it is called in the UISearchController.

So I subclassed UISearchController and overrode the viewWillDisappear method. In my case I just needed to deactivate the search controller.

class SearchController: UISearchController {

    override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {        
        // to avoid black screen when switching tabs while searching
        isActive = false
    }
}