UISearchController change 'Cancel' button title

Question

How we can change the title of cancel button in search controller?

Answer 1

The solution provided above could change with new iOS releases. Here is a better approach:

[searchBar setValue:@"customString" forKey:@"_cancelButtonText"];

Answer 2

The Swift equivalent of Burhanuddin Sunelwala answer did the trick for me!

self.searchBar.setValue("custom string", forKey: "cancelButtonText")

Thanks to Burhanuddin Sunelwala for putting me in the right direction!

Answer 3

You can change the "Cancel" Button in search bar using this-

for (UIView *view in searchBar.subviews)
{
    for (id subview in view.subviews)
    {
        if ( [subview isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]] )
        {
            [subview setEnabled:YES];
            UIButton *cancelButton = (UIButton*)subview;
            [cancelButton setTitle:@"hi" forState:UIControlStateNormal];


            NSLog(@"enableCancelButton");
            return;
        }
    }
}

Answer 4

值得注意的是，更改取消按钮标题的首选方法现在是通过外观（从另一个问题中得到想法： https : //stackoverflow.com/a/34522163/511878 ）：

[[UIBarButtonItem appearanceWhenContainedInInstancesOfClasses:@[[UISearchBar class]]] setTitle:@"Annuler"];

Answer 5

You should use the appearance proxy of the UISearchBar. You can find an example here - How to change the default text of Cancel Button which appears in the UISearchBar +iPhone

Answer 6

swift version:

for view:UIView in (searchView?.subviews)!
{
        for subView:UIView in (view.subviews)
        {
            if ( subView is UIButton )
            {
                let cancelBut = subView as! UIButton

                //do stuff with cancelButton here
            }
        }
    }

Answer 7

for (UIView *subView in SearchBar.subviews) {
    if ([subView isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]) {
        UIButton *cancelButton = (UIButton*)subView;

        [cancelButton setTitle:@"TitleString" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
}

Answer 8

swift 4 & 5

The best and simple way that worked for me is this snippet of code:

if let cancelButton = searchBar.value(forKey: "cancelButton") as? UIButton {
    cancelButton.setTitle("Annuler", for: .normal)
}

You can modify more properties like this:

if let cancelButton = searchBar.value(forKey: "cancelButton") as? UIButton {
    cancelButton.setTitle(<your_string>, for: <UIControlState>)
    cancelButton.setTitleColor(<your_uicolor>, for: <UIControlState>)
    cancelButton.setAttributedTitle(<your_nsattributedstring>, for: <UIControlState>)
}

I hope this helps :)

Answer 9

You also need to have the searchBar setShowsCancelButton before the procedure.

- (void)searchDisplayControllerWillBeginSearch:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller
{
    [theSearchBar setShowsCancelButton:YES animated:NO];
    for (UIView *subView in theSearchBar.subviews){
        if([subView isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]){
            [(UIButton*)subView setTitle:@"Done" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
        }
    }
}

Note also use UIButton to avoid problems with Apple!

Answer 10

Swift 4.2, 4.0+

A custom class that supports many customizations with the below results is added in the answer here .

Answer 11

  class ViewController: UIViewController,UISearchResultsUpdating {
        func updateSearchResults(for searchController: UISearchController) {
            //write your code here
        }
        @IBOutlet weak var navItem: UINavigationItem!
        let searchController = UISearchController(searchResultsController: nil)
        override func viewDidLoad() {
            super.viewDidLoad()
            searchController.obscuresBackgroundDuringPresentation = false
            searchController.definesPresentationContext = true
            searchController.searchResultsUpdater = self
            if #available(iOS 11.0, *){
                navigationItem.searchController = searchController
                UIBarButtonItem.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UISearchBar.self]).title = "new title"
            }
            // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
        }
    }