Cursor invisible in UISearchBar iOS 7

Question

I have UISearchBar in UITableView as a table header. When I push the UISearchBar for start searching, this method is being triggered

- (BOOL)searchBarShouldBeginEditing:(UISearchBar *)searchBar

for UISearchDisplayController.

But result is like that;

As you can see, there is no cursor, I can start typing and search, everything works fine. Also it's invisible only in iOS 7. However, with iOS 6.1 and iOS 7.1 Beta 3 I could see the cursor. So how can I make UISearchBar cursor visible or how can I add cursor in my UISearchBar?

Answer 1

Cursor in the search bar takes color from Search Bar -> View -> Tint Color property. In your case, it is set to White color, so it becomes invisible.

Answer 2

try using with

-(void)searchDisplayControllerWillBeginSearch:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller
{
    self.navigationItem.titleView.tintColor = [UIColor blueColor];

}

hope this will help you

Answer 3

Try setting text field tint color using UIAppearance

[[UITextField appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UISearchBar class], nil] setTintColor: [UIColor darkGrayColor]];

Answer 4

If you want the cursor and cancel button to be different colors...

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Start by setting the view's tint color (not the bar tint) in the storyboard editor, which will be applied to both the cursor and cancel button.

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To make the cursor a different color, you need to do it programatically. The text field is nested a couple levels down in the searchBar's subviews. Use this setTextFieldTintColor helper function to traverse all of the subviews.

@IBOutlet weak var searchBar: UISearchBar!

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    // set tint color for all subviews in searchBar that are of type UITextField
    setTextFieldTintColor(to: UIColor.darkText, for: searchBar)
}    

func setTextFieldTintColor(to color: UIColor, for view: UIView) {
    if view is UITextField {
        view.tintColor = color
    }
    for subview in view.subviews {
        setTextFieldTintColor(to: color, for: subview)
    }
}

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The end result looks like this:

Answer 5

Try this it's only one line of code to solve your problem , Change cursor tintColor property white to blue.

  searchBar.tintColor = [UIColor blueColor];

Hope this will help to someone .

Answer 6

Your cursor is white because your tintColor property on UISearchBar is set to white.

If you want Cancel btn to be white, but cursor to be black you can use: UITextField.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UISearchBar.self]).tintColor = .black