UISearchBar cancel button color?

Question

When I drop a UISearchBar into my view inside Interface Builder, and change its style to Black Opaque, the cancel button stays unfittingly blue / gray and doesn't become black.

How can I make the cancel button black?

EDIT: It does work like this:

// Assume a UISearchBar searchBar.
NSArray *subviews = [searchBar subviews];

// The index depends on how you configure the searchBar.
UIButton *cancelButton = [subviews objectAtIndex:3];

// Set the style to "normal" style.
[cancelButton setStyle:0];

But the setStyle: method is from a private framework, so this might be an issue when submitting the app to Apple.

Answer 1

I used some thing like this and worked with me:

[[UIBarButtonItem appearanceWhenContainedIn: [UISearchBar class], nil] setTintColor:[UIColor blackColor]];

it changed the cancel button color to black.

Update for iOS 9.0, the method appearanceWhenContainedIn is deprecated, use appearanceWhenContainedInInstancesOfClasses instead:

[[UIBarButtonItem appearanceWhenContainedInInstancesOfClasses:@[[UISearchBar class]]] setTintColor:[UIColor blackColor]];

And in Swift 3:

UIBarButtonItem.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf:[UISearchBar.self]).tintColor = UIColor.black