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

I tried @Johnson's answer however it didn't work well for me. (iOS 13, swift 5)

However the logic behind the solution seemed well. So tried to iterate all subviews of the searchBar and it worked!

I hope, it will help :)

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Solution also worked for me in iOS 12.4 - swift 5

Remove Background Method

private func removeBackground(from searchBar: UISearchBar) {
    guard let BackgroundType = NSClassFromString("_UISearchBarSearchFieldBackgroundView") else { return }

    for v in searchBar.allSubViewsOf(type: UIView.self) where v.isKind(of: BackgroundType){
        v.removeFromSuperview()
    }
}

Helper Methods -> UIViewExtension

extension UIView {

    public func allSubViewsOf(type : T.Type) -> [T]{
        var all = [T]()
        func getSubview(view: UIView) {
            if let wrapped = view as? T, wrapped != self{
                all.append(wrapped)
            }
            guard view.subviews.count>0 else { return }
            view.subviews.forEach{ getSubview(view: $0) }
        }
        getSubview(view: self)
        return all
    }
}