Enable Search button when searching string is empty in default search bar
Actually you can just set searchBar.enablesReturnKeyAutomatically = NO; Tested on iOS 7+
This code display Search Button if you have empty string.
- (void)searchBarTextDidBeginEditing:(UISearchBar *)searchBar { [self.searchBar setShowsCancelButton:YES animated:YES]; self.tblView.allowsSelection = NO; self.tblView.scrollEnabled = NO; UITextField *searchBarTextField = nil; for (UIView *subview in self.searchBar.subviews) { if ([subview isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]]) { searchBarTextField = (UITextField *)subview; break; } } searchBarTextField.enablesReturnKeyAutomatically = NO;}
Swift 3/ iOS 10
for view1 in searchBar.subviews { for view2 in view1.subviews { if let searchBarTextField = view2 as? UITextField { searchBarTextField.enablesReturnKeyAutomatically = false break } } }