Hide or Disable searchbar in CNContactPickerViewController

Question

I came to know that search bar in CNContactPickerViewController doesn't allow to select searched contacts. I also look other stack overflow questions regarding this issue. It seems like iOS bug. But I want to know, is there any way to hide or disable search bar from CNContactPickerViewController? Because if this doesn't work then I don't want to show it.

please see this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17141210/how-to-hide-remove-the-search-bar-on-contact-picker — Saurabh Jain, Jul 21 '17 at 03:55
Saurabh, that is in objective-c, i need the response in swift 3. — Richa Gupta, Jul 26 '17 at 17:30
I have the same issue, I wish to hide the search bar on the CNContactPickerViewController because the search box is useless! — Plasma, Sep 22 '17 at 16:31

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 26 '17 at 18:42

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private var foundSearchBar: Bool = false

func findSearchBar(_ parent: UIView, mark: String) {
    for v: UIView in parent.subviews {
        //if( foundSearchBar ) return;
        print("\(mark)\(NSStringFromClass(v.self))")
        if (v is UISearchBar) {
            (v as? UISearchBar)?.tintColor = UIColor.black
            v.hidden = true
            //            foundSearchBar = YES;
            break
        }
        if (v is UITableView) {
            let temp: CGRect = v.frame
            temp.origin.y = temp.origin.y - 44
            temp.size.height = temp.size.height + 44
            v.frame = temp
            //foundSearchBar = YES;
            break
        }
        findSearchBar(v, mark: mark + ("> "))
    }
}

call above method after picker is presented as below:

func showPeoplePickerController() {
    let picker = ABPeoplePickerNavigationController()
    picker.peoplePickerDelegate = self
    picker.view.autoresizingMask = .flexibleHeight
        // Display only a person's phone, email, and birthdate
    let displayedItems: [Any] = [Int(kABPersonPhoneProperty), Int(kABPersonEmailProperty), Int(kABPersonBirthdayProperty), Int(kABPersonAddressProperty)]
    picker.displayedProperties = displayedItems
    // Show the picker
    present(picker, animated: true) { _ in }
    findSearchBar(picker.view(), mark: "> ")
}

answered Jul 26 '17 at 18:42

Saurabh Jain

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Thank you for your help, but this code is not working for me, as i am using CNContactPickerViewController, instead of ABAddressbook. So migt be there is change in there view and subviews, as per my code i am unable to satisfy that for loop, its not going inside that loop and its showing 0 elements, when i am printing parent.subviews value. – Richa Gupta Jul 27 '17 at 02:21
did you find anything? – Richa Gupta Aug 03 '17 at 16:50
Not yet :( @RichaGupta – Saurabh Jain Aug 03 '17 at 17:03
@RichaGupta have you found the solution? – Saurabh Jain Aug 28 '17 at 15:38
Not working for me, the subviews array seems to be empty :( – Andrea Gorrieri Jan 07 '19 at 11:40
@AndreaGorrieri The answer is too old and i Forgot – Saurabh Jain Jan 07 '19 at 12:37
As the CNContactPickerViewController is a UIRemoteView you have no access to it – Chris Byatt Feb 28 '19 at 17:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 07 '19 at 13:25

As you can find here the problem seems to be present only if you use the multi-contact selection mode for the CNContactPickerViewController. Implementing the single-contact selection mode you can search for a contact and select it without problems. In order to use the single-contact selection mode make sure you implement in your CNContactPickerDelegate ONLY this method:

func contactPicker(_ picker: CNContactPickerViewController, didSelect contact: CNContact)

and not this method:

func contactPicker(_ picker: CNContactPickerViewController, didSelect contacts: [CNContact])

Implementing both methods the multi-selection mode is used.

Hide or Disable searchbar in CNContactPickerViewController

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