Hide UISearchBar Cancel Button

Question

I have a UISearchDisplayController and UISearchBar hooked up to my ViewController via Outlets from my nib.

I\'d like to hide the cancel button so that the user never

Answer 1

Had this problem when using the UISearchBar with UISearchController. I'm using my own cancel button, as the cancel button wasn't showing on iPad with showsCancelButton = YES, now it won't hide on iPhone with showsCancelButton = NO!

The following worked for me.

Set the delegate, and initial value:

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    // ... 
    self.searchController.searchBar.showsCancelButton = NO;
    self.searchController.searchBar.delegate = self;
}

Reset showsCancelButton to NO 0.1s after the text bar begins editing.

#pragma mark - UISearchBarDelegate
- (void)searchBarTextDidBeginEditing:(UISearchBar *)searchBar
{
    dispatch_after(dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, 0.1 * NSEC_PER_SEC), dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
        self.searchController.searchBar.showsCancelButton = NO;
    });
}

Answer 2

I managed to hide the "Cancel" button by subclassing UISearchBar and override this method:

-(void)layoutSubviews{
    [super layoutSubviews];
    [self setShowsCancelButton:NO animated:NO];
}

Answer 3

If you want to avoid the subclassing, implement

searchController.searchBar.showsCancelButton = false;

in these two delegate methods (Do not forget to assign delegates):

- (void)updateSearchResultsForSearchController:(UISearchController *)searchController

- (void)didPresentSearchController:(UISearchController *)searchController

The first one is called everytime you update the searchBar (Cancel button is visible by default) and the second one is for the first searchBar activation.

Answer 4

Just based on issues I've had before have you tried setting it in:

- (void)searchDisplayControllerWillBeginSearch:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller

I don't know how to ask this question in your question sorry if this is out of place.

Answer 5

After UISearchDisplayController deprecated in iOS8, Apple give handle search presentation to UISearchControllerDelegate.

so you can override searchBar to hide the Cancel button, like below :

- (void)didPresentSearchController:(UISearchController *)searchController {
    [searchController.searchBar setShowsCancelButton:NO];
}

if you need hidden Cancel button from inactive state, you need set searchBar on init :

search = [[UISearchController alloc] initWithSearchResultsController:nil];
[search.searchBar setShowsCancelButton:NO];

Answer 6

Similar to Nimrod's answer, you can also subclass UISearchDisplayController and implement the setActive:animated: method:

- (void)setActive:(BOOL)visible animated:(BOOL)animated {
    [super setActive:visible animated:animated];
    self.searchBar.showsCancelButton = NO;
}