How to trigger cancel button in UISearchBar?

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How to trigger programmatically cancel button in UISearchBar, like if you have tapped cancel button?

I have a UISearchBar in the top of a UITableView and after a search, when someone select a row, I want to trigger programmatically cancel button in the UISearchBar?

EDIT: Without user interaction.

Do you have a search display controller?

Martin R
– Martin R

2013-04-11 20:39:24 +00:00
Commented Apr 11, 2013 at 20:39 — Martin R
– Martin R, Commented Apr 11, 2013 at 20:39

Martin R · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-11 20:42:21Z

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For a view controller using a search display controller, you can set

self.searchDisplayController.active = NO; // or: [self.searchDisplayController setActive:NO animated:YES];

to dismiss the search interface.

answered Apr 11, 2013 at 20:42

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Marcus Ataide Over a year ago

Aeew, thanks!! it works! I just don't know why I got down votes , thanks for your attention.

Nick · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-02 01:32:26Z

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For the new UISearchController (introduced in 2014 with iOS 8) you can call:

[self.searchController setActive:FALSE];

or

self.searchController.active = FALSE;

(No flag for animation, I've found it always animates.)

answered Feb 2, 2015 at 1:32

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Vineeth Vijayan Over a year ago

I tried the code above. It seems to be working in a demo I found, but doesn't seems to be working in my code, Do you have any idea? currently using self.searchDisplayController?.setActive(false, animated: true) to dismiss the Search Controller, but I fear because its a deprecated code.

Nick Over a year ago

@vinbhai4u hard to tell with your small comment. You should submit a new question where you explain things in more detail.

Bruce G Over a year ago

If you don't want animation, you can wrap it in a UIView.performWithoutAnimation block.

rog · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-11 20:43:33Z

You need to implement the UISearchBarDelegate. Once you've done that, use:

- (void)searchBarCancelButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)searchBar

Tells the delegate that the cancel button was tapped.

Then use:

[self searchBarCancelButtonClicked:yourSearchBar];

No, I need to do it programmatically. without user interaction.

brainforked · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-22 12:08:51Z

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As for iOS 8, UISearchController is used, to achieve the cancel button action programmatically, Use:

[self.searchController setActive:NO];

answered Oct 22, 2015 at 12:08

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David.Chu.ca Over a year ago

Yes. This one does triggering search cancel search mode. In view disappear event, this call is critical to avoid memory leak when the view is in searching mode. Otherwise, the view would not be released from memory.

Kosrat D. Ahmad · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-02 13:00:37Z

For Swift 4.2 version you can write as the following code:

searchController?.isActive = false

Bishal Shrestha · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-19 06:30:17Z

self.navigationItem.searchController?.isActive = false // above iOS 8.0 // or: self.searchDisplayController.active = NO; // was deprecated in iOS 8.0 // or: [self.searchDisplayController setActive:NO animated:YES]; // Obejective-C

These are some of the variants that accomplish the mentioned task

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