Cursor not displaying in UISearchBar for our app

Question

For the UISearchBars in our app, there's no cursor shown in the bar with focus when running under iOS 7. How do we make that show?

We are using the SDK 7, with a minimum target of 6. We do have the translucency off for the navigation bars, and set the color at runtime. I can't think of anything else we are doing differently.

Answer 1

Our problem was that the tint color was set to white, so I didn't see it.

Answer 2

Set

searchBar.tintColor = [UIColor blueColor];

Answer 3

In the searchbox property window

open View Section>Set Tint color - default.

Hope this will help.

Answer 4

This is how it can be done in Swift :

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    self.searchBar.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()

    let view: UIView = self.searchBar.subviews[0] as! UIView
    let subViewsArray = view.subviews

    for (subView: UIView) in subViewsArray as! [UIView] {
        println(subView)
        if subView.isKindOfClass(UITextField){
            subView.tintColor = UIColor.blueColor()
        }
    }

}

Answer 5

searchBar.tintColor = view.tintColor  // self.view usually has the proper tintColor

Better than .blue or whatever.

Answer 6

Just set the tintColor for UISearchBar, in your storyboard, xib or code. Xcode seems to ignore the default tintColor.

Answer 7

You could loop through the searchBars subviews and obtain the uitextfield subview and set its @"insertionPointColor" value to your desired color. Works but is private api

for (UIView *subView in self.searchBar.subviews) {
    if ([subView isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]]) {
        [[(UITextField *) subView valueForKey:@"textInputTraits"] setValue:[UIColor blackColor] forKey:@"insertionPointColor"];
    }
}