How to change the colour of the 'Cancel' button on the UISearchBar in Swift

Question

I have added a UISearchBar to the top of my PFQueryTableViewController. I have changed the colour of the searchBar to be the colour of my app, but

Answer 1

Swift 5

UIBarButtonItem.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UISearchBar.self]).setTitleTextAttributes([.foregroundColor : UIColor.barTint], for: .normal)

Answer 2

Swift 4.2, 4.1

A custom class added here can be used to customize the most common elements in a searchBar. Custom class SearchBar can result in to the following search bar.

Answer 3

Having a look around, this seemed to be the best way to achieve what I needed:

 let cancelButtonAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]
 UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes(cancelButtonAttributes , for: .normal)

Answer 4

You can simply set tintcolor of searchBar to change color of Cancel button. This is available since swift 4 so should do the trick.

let searchBar = UISearchBar(frame: )
searchBar.tintColor = .orange

Search bar cancel button and cursor color change

Answer 5

With the Swift 4.0 RELEASE 2017-09-19 toolchain, this worked:

    let cancelButtonAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]
    UIBarButtonItem.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UISearchBar.self]).setTitleTextAttributes(cancelButtonAttributes, for: .normal)

Answer 6

All the above answers didn't work for me. (Got 'Type 'NSAttributedString.Key' (aka 'NSString') has no member 'foregroundColor'' error)

Maybe because I'm at Swift 3...

Here's the slightly-modified code that worked for me:-

UIBarButtonItem.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UISearchBar.self]).setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName : .black], for: .normal)

Note:-

If you are using UISearchController, insert this code to 'willPresentSearchController:' or 'didPresentSearchController:'