Change UISearchBar cancel button text in iOS 8

Question

I\'d like to change the text from "Cancel" to "Done" of the Cancel button inside the UISearchBar in iOS 8. I am using UISearchControll

Answer 1

In Swift:

searchBar.setValue("customString", forKey: "_cancelButtonText")

Based on Burhanuddin Sunelwala answer.

Answer 2

I have added titleLabel.font to the mix...

This goes straight into my ViewDidLoad() {

        let searchFont = UIFont(name: "BrandonGrotesque-Medium", size: 12)
        let textFieldSearchBar = self.searchBar.valueForKey("searchField") as! UITextField
        textFieldSearchBar.font = searchFont
        let cancelButton = searchBar.valueForKey("cancelButton") as! UIButton
        cancelButton.setTitle("Done", forState: .Normal)
        cancelButton.titleLabel!.font = searchFont

Answer 3

Objective-C:

[searchBar setValue:@"customString" forKey:@"_cancelButtonText"];

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Swift:

searchBar.setValue("customString", forKey:"_cancelButtonText")

Answer 4

Here is Swift solution:

for (view) in _searchController.searchBar.subviews {
    for (subview) in view.subviews {
        if (subview.isKindOfClass(UIButton.self)) {
            let cancelButton = subview as! UIButton
            cancelButton.setTitle("BlaBla", forState: .Normal)
            break
        }
    }
}

Answer 5

Swift 3.0:

In your AppDelegate add this:

UIBarButtonItem.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UISearchBar.self]).title = "my text"

Answer 6

I was having trouble getting this to work for a UISearchBar within a UISearchController. The text didn't change the first time the cancel button was shown but it did the second time.

That is until I saw @polo987's answer. Here's what I did that worked:

UIBarButtonItem.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UISearchBar.self]).title = "Done"