UISearchBar cancel button color?

Question

When I drop a UISearchBar into my view inside Interface Builder, and change its style to Black Opaque, the cancel button stays unfittingly blue / gray and doesn\'t become bl

Answer 1

for iOS 10:

UISearchBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.red //cancel button color
UISearchBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor.blue //background button color

Answer 2

let view: UIView = self.searchBar.subviews[0] as UIView
let subViewsArray = view.subviews

for subView: UIView in subViewsArray {
    if let cancelButt = subView as? UIButton{
        cancelButt.setTitleColor(UIColor.white, for: .normal)         
    }
}

This worked for me

Answer 3

In Swift 4.2

let appearance = UIBarButtonItem.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UISearchBar.self])
appearance.setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor(named: "goldColor")!], for: .normal)

This works for me. Thanks @Tim Semple

Answer 4

I have taken Benjamin's answer and combined it with safe Array lookup to produce a short, but safe functional version:

searchController.searchBar.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
(searchController.searchBar.subviews[safe: 0]?.subviews as? [UIView])?
    .filter({$0.isKindOfClass(UITextField)})
    .map({$0.tintColor = .lightGrayColor()})

This results in coloring the Cancel button white and the cursor when typing gray. Otherwise it would be white and thus not seen. The searchController is an object of type UISearchController. If anybody wants to use it inside the results controller, replace it with self.

The implementation of the safe: subscript is nkukushkin's answer:

extension Array {
    subscript(safe index: Int) -> T? {
        return indices(self) ~= index ? self[index] : nil
    }
}

Answer 5

Click on Search bar and set the tint color under view from Interface Builder.

Answer 6

For those looking to reproduce the same behavior in Swift :

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    self.searchBar.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()

    let view: UIView = self.searchBar.subviews[0] as! UIView
    let subViewsArray = view.subviews

    for (subView: UIView) in subViewsArray as! [UIView] {
        println(subView)
        if subView.isKindOfClass(UITextField){
            subView.tintColor = UIColor.blueColor()
        }
    }

}