Hide UISearchBar clear text button

Question

I would like to know how to hide or not display the UISearchBar cross that appears in the textField fo the UISearchBar

I have

Answer 1

Swift 3, based on @Alexsander answer:

searchBar.setImage(UIImage(), for: .clear, state: .normal)

Answer 2

You need to get the textField of the Search Bar:

UITextField *textField = [searchBar valueForKey:@"_searchField"];
textField.clearButtonMode = UITextFieldViewModeNever;

hope this help! =)

Answer 3

Based on @Gines answer, here is the Swift version:

func searchBarTextDidBeginEditing(searchBar: UISearchBar) {
    guard let firstSubview = searchBar.subviews.first else { return }

    firstSubview.subviews.forEach {
        ($0 as? UITextField)?.clearButtonMode = .never
    }
}

Answer 4

There's a better way to do this, and you don't have to use private APIs or traverse subviews to do it, so this solution is App Store safe.

UISearchBar has a built-in API for doing this:

[UISearchBar setImage:forSearchBarIcon:state]

The SearchBar icon key you want is UISearchBarIconClear, and you want the UIControlStateNormal state. Then give it a clear image for the image, and you're done.

So, it should look like this:

[searchBar setImage:clearImage forSearchBarIcon:UISearchBarIconClear state:UIControlStateNormal];

Answer 5

I tried different solutions about this issue, even the one selected in this post, but they didn't work.

This is the way I found to solve this issue:

UIView *subview = [[searchBar subviews] firstObject]; //SearchBar only have one subview (UIView)

//There are three sub subviews (UISearchBarBackground, UINavigationButton, UISearchBarTextField)
for (UIView *subsubview in subview.subviews)
{
    //The UISearchBarTextField class is a UITextField. We can't use UISearchBarTextField directly here.
    if ([subsubview isKindOfClass: [UITextField class]])
    {
            [(UITextField *)subsubview setClearButtonMode:UITextFieldViewModeNever];
    }
}

Answer 6

Swift 2.3, based on @Alexsander answer:

searchBar.setImage(UIImage(named: "SearchClearIcon"), forSearchBarIcon: UISearchBarIcon.Clear, state: UIControlState.Highlighted)
searchBar.setImage(UIImage(named: "SearchClearIcon"), forSearchBarIcon: UISearchBarIcon.Clear, state: UIControlState.Normal)