iOS 11 SearchBar in NavigationBar

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45350035/ios-11-searchbar-in-navigationbar

With iOS 11 Apple has redesigned the UISearchBar by making the corners rounder and the height bigger. Adding a UISearchBar to the navigationBar is pretty simple by just setting it as the titleView of the navigationItem using navigationItem.titleView = searchBar. However, in iOS 11 it does not seem to work anymore as expected. Have a look at the screens where we compare the same setup using iOS 10 and iOS 11 iOS 10  iOS 11  You can clearly see that the SearchBar increases the size of the NavigationBar but the bar buttons do not get aligned correctly. Also the searchBar does not use the available space on the left anymore. Putting the searchBar into a wrapper view to get the cancel button on iPad as described here Cancel button is not shown in UISearchBar also does not seem work anymore since the searchBar is then not visible at all. If anyone has similar issues or already knowns how to fix/improve this I would be very thankful. This was built using Xcode 9 Beta 4. Maybe future releases will fix this issue. UPDATE: Since this does not get "fixed" we now decided to use following solution: We added a new UIBarButtonItem in the NavBar and when the user presses this button we then present a new ViewController where we only put a searchBar into the NavBar which looks good now. Using the selected answer may be the best solution. uinavigationbar  uisearchbar  ios11 share improve this question edited Sep 21 at 18:59 asked  Jul 27 at 11:52 PatrickDotStar 447 6 14

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There's a new searchController property on navigationItem in iOS 11. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uinavigationitem/2897305-searchcontroller Use like this... if #available(iOS 11.0, *) { navigationItem.searchController = searchController } else { // Fallback on earlier versions navigationItem.titleView = searchController?.searchBar } share improve this answer answered  Aug 22 at 20:08 Justin Domnitz 1,351 11 24

1   My answer is similar to @cook answer, but I thought the link and the code might help clarify a bit. –  Justin Domnitz  Aug 22 at 20:35 6   This will not give the results as original described. Using the searchController property will put the search bar below the navigation. –  Molanda  Sep 26 at 1:08 This works on iPhone but doesn't work on iPad for me. –  Starchand  Oct 4 at 9:59 add a comment

up vote 9 down vote	You can change the height of UISearchBar in iOS 11 by adding a constraint of height 44: if #available(iOS 11.0, *) { searchBar.heightAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 44).isActive = true } share improve this answer edited Oct 4 at 11:59 Christian Ascone 498 1 11 answered  Sep 22 at 3:17 zgjie 768 1 8 19
	This makes top and bottom bezel shorter. I tried this objective-c solution: [[self.notesSearchBar.heightAnchor constraintEqualToConstant:44.0] setActive:YES], but I dont like this solution because it makes top bottom margin thinner and weird. –  coolcool1994  Sep 30 at 12:59 This worked for me. It repositions my search bar maintaining the correct layout. –  Christian Ascone  Oct 4 at