Changing UISearchBar icon?

Question

I'm trying to customise the UISearchBarin my current app without much success. What I am trying to do is this:

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However the end result is this:

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You see in the second image I still have the original search icon there. I have not been able to find a way to remove it all together. I thought setting a custom background image would solve it, but evidently, not.

Edit: The suggested duplicate question mentioned doesn't solve the problem. Non the provided code works in removing the icon.

Edit 2:

This is how I have added the background image, which contains the orange icon on the left

    [self.searchBar setSearchFieldBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"search_bar"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

possible duplicate of [Removing the image on the left of an UISearchbar](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3245342/removing-the-image-on-the-left-of-an-uisearchbar) — n00bProgrammer, Apr 13 '15 at 08:02
Did you try any other answers from the question I linked, because setting the `leftViewMode` of the internal `UITextField` to `UITextFieldLeftViewModeNever` worked for me. I just checked. — n00bProgrammer, Apr 13 '15 at 08:16
Yes I did. I stepped through that code and the loop executes only once. Which I find odd. — Robert J. Clegg, Apr 13 '15 at 08:18

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

Even though the answer exists HERE, it does not work with iOS >= 7.x. The following will:

for (UIView *subView in self.searchedBar.subviews) {

        for (UIView *subView2 in subView.subviews) {

            if ([NSStringFromClass([subView2 class]) isEqualToString:@"UISearchBarTextField"]) {

                UITextField *searchField = (UITextField *)subView2;
                searchField.leftViewMode = UITextFieldViewModeNever;
            }
        }
    }

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 08 '16 at 01:33

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The following works for me on iOS 8+:

[mySearchBar setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"SearchBarIcon"] forSearchBarIcon:UISearchBarIconSearch state:UIControlStateNormal];

answered Aug 08 '16 at 01:33

edwardmp

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