cancel-button – Tarik Billa

UISearchBar disable auto disable of cancel button

August 28, 2023 by Tarik

I found a solution. You can use this for-loop to loop over the subviews of the search bar and enable it when the search button is pressed on the keyboard. for (UIView *possibleButton in searchBar.subviews) { if ([possibleButton isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]) { UIButton *cancelButton = (UIButton*)possibleButton; cancelButton.enabled = YES; break; } }

How to enable cancel button with UISearchBar?

May 1, 2023 by Tarik

This method worked in iOS7. – (void)enableCancelButton:(UISearchBar *)searchBar { for (UIView *view in searchBar.subviews) { for (id subview in view.subviews) { if ( [subview isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]] ) { [subview setEnabled:YES]; NSLog(@”enableCancelButton”); return; } } } } (Also be sure to call it anywhere after [_searchBar resignFirstResponder] is used.)