searchBarCancelButtonClicked delegate method is not called. Is there any way to call?

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UIViewController to implement a view to placing an UITableView UISearchBar and being implemented. But you can not call searchBarCancelButtonClicked. Do not know what the reason.

I have the exact same problem. My view controller is the search bar's delegate, and it adopts the UISearchBarDelegate protocol. — Adam Crume, Dec 07 '10 at 17:33
I have the same problem too. Everything should be set up properly. All other delegate methods are getting called, but this one does not. I would be happy if a reason is found. — Petar, Jan 12 '12 at 12:46
Check this question. It helped me. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6004438/uisearchbar-delegate-not-responding-to-cancel-button — derpoliuk, Aug 14 '13 at 15:58

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 19 '16 at 13:25

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The reason why searchBarCancelButtonClicked does not fire may be because your UISearchBar does not show the Cancel button. You can display the Cancel button like this:

searchBar.showsCancelButton = true

I had the same problem and making the Cancel button show made searchBarCancelButtonClicked fire as expected.

answered Jan 19 '16 at 13:25

Chris Balavessov

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In my case I was clicking on the x in the bar window --> that is not the cancel button. [I was thinking it was...] Using this line of code caused the word 'Cancel' to show up to the right of my bar, and then I realized my error. Thanks! – Mozahler Apr 21 '18 at 11:41

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 06 '10 at 16:25

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Ensure that your UIViewController is set as the delegate of your UISearchBar, and that it adopts the UISearchBarDelegate protocol.

answered Dec 06 '10 at 16:25

GendoIkari

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that's the way I have it... all other delegate methods work, just this one doesn't get called, might be a bug of the sdk – samiq Dec 19 '10 at 13:09
@samiq I seem to have this problem too. This is in iOS 7! – Isuru Mar 09 '14 at 16:25
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Added `searchController.searchBar.delegate = self` and the method was called. Thank you. – Andrés Pizá Bückmann Apr 13 '17 at 19:46
@Isuru I am stuck with the same problem. Any solution? – Shivam Pokhriyal Jul 02 '19 at 11:30
@ShivamPokhriyal This was so long ago, man. I honestly don't remember what I did. Sorry. – Isuru Jul 02 '19 at 14:12

score 6 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 26 '11 at 07:41

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- (void)searchBar:(UISearchBar *)searchBar textDidChange:(NSString *)searchText {
   // This method has been called when u enter some text on search or Cancel the search.
   // so make some condition for example:

   if([searchText isEqualToString:@""] || searchText==nil) {
        // Nothing to search, empty result.
        searching = NO;
        [mytableView reloadData];
    }
}

Hope it helps.

edited Sep 26 '11 at 07:41

noodl_es

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answered Mar 24 '11 at 07:39

IHSAN KHAN

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I don't see "Cancel" button calls that method... :( – Ferran Maylinch May 07 '14 at 13:48

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 28 '16 at 22:07

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In my case was an uncontrolled userInteractionEnabled=NO

answered Jun 28 '16 at 22:07

Javier Calatrava Llavería

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 03 '18 at 20:02

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searchController.searchBar.delegate = self, not just searchController.delegate = self

answered Jul 03 '18 at 20:02

Ethan Allen

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 05 '19 at 15:35

The real reason for me was that i thought the small x button was the meant cancel button, but it's not... if you are having the same issue i faced use the below code

func searchBar(_ searchBar: UISearchBar, textDidChange searchText: String) {
        if searchText.isEmpty {
            searchRecords.removeAll()
            searchTableView.reloadData()
        }
    }

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Sep 12 '18 at 09:18

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This line remove UISearchController transparent view

let searchController = UISearchController(searchResultsController: nil)
searchController.dimsBackgroundDuringPresentation = false

answered Sep 12 '18 at 09:18

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Mar 19 '19 at 09:18

Try to put this in viewDidLoad. In my case sometimes Cancel button action delegate "searchBarCancelButtonClicked" has triggered and sometimes hasn't ( just keyboard dismissed and cancel button become not active), after adding this everything started working as expected.

UIBarButtonItem.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UISearchBar.self]).isEnabled = true

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Apr 21 '19 at 23:45

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I had the same problem and had to set the definesPresentationContext property to true before the searchBarCancelButtonClicked method would work.

 definesPresentationContext = true

answered Apr 21 '19 at 23:45

Ben Oveson

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Please explain how this relates to the question. – JJJ Apr 22 '19 at 00:20
I don't know, how this relates to the question. But in my case self.definesPresentationContext = true works like a champ. – Akshay Phulare Sep 21 '19 at 15:44

Dennis · Answer 10 · 2014-07-24T09:18:09.307

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I ran into the same problem when I had a UISearchBar inside of a UIScrollView. As I understand the question you had it inside a UITableView, which is a subclass of UIScrollView.

What helped in my case was setting

tableView.delaysContentTouches = NO;

Seems the searchBarCancelButtonClicked method doesn't work well with that set to YES, which is the default setting.

edited Jul 24 '14 at 09:18

answered Aug 17 '12 at 19:15

Dennis

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That method doesn't seem to exist – Ferran Maylinch May 02 '14 at 18:23
My bad, I accidentally referenced the searchBar instead of the UIScrollView subclass. It does exist there since iOS 2.0: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/uiscrollview_class/Reference/UIScrollView.html#//apple_ref/occ/instp/UIScrollView/delaysContentTouches – Dennis Jul 24 '14 at 09:20

searchBarCancelButtonClicked delegate method is not called. Is there any way to call?

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