How can I change the UISearchBar search text color?
You have to access the UITextField inside the UISearchBar. You can do that by using valueForKey("searchField")
var textFieldInsideSearchBar = yourSearchbar.valueForKey("searchField") as? UITextFieldtextFieldInsideSearchBar?.textColor = yourcolorSwift 3 update
let textFieldInsideSearchBar = yourSearchbar.value(forKey: "searchField") as? UITextFieldtextFieldInsideSearchBar?.textColor = yourcolor
If you want to set text color for UISearchBar in storyboard (without code), it is easy to do as well (in identity inspector). Here is a red text for search bar.
Working in Swift 4 for me:
UITextField.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UISearchBar.self]).defaultTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor.rawValue: UIColor.white]Swift 4.2, IOS 12:
UITextField.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UISearchBar.self]).defaultTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]