Search Bar background color Gray ios7

Question

I am currently working on an app that worked fine until ios7 came along. The search bar used to be transparent and blended into the blue background of the navigation bar. Now that I am working in ios7, the nav bar is blue, however the search bar has a gray background to it. How do I make it blue or transparent?

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Answer 1

Try this:

if(IOS_7)
{
    self.searchBar.searchBarStyle = UISearchBarStyleMinimal;
}

Answer 2

You can set "Bar Tint" to "Clear Color" in Interface Builder (.xib):

It can also be done in code:

self.searchBar.barTintColor = [UIColor clearColor];

Answer 3

To make it a flat color, you simply need to remove the UISearchBarBackground view.

I created a recursive method to properly clean the search bar.

- (void) removeUISearchBarBackgroundInViewHierarchy:(UIView *)view
{
    for (UIView *subview in [view subviews]) {
        if ([subview isKindOfClass:NSClassFromString(@"UISearchBarBackground")]) {
            [subview removeFromSuperview];
            break; //To avoid an extra loop as there is only one UISearchBarBackground
        } else {
            [self removeUISearchBarBackgroundInViewHierarchy:subview];
        }
    }
}

You can simply send your search bar to the method and change the color afterward.

[self removeUISearchBarBackgroundInViewHierarchy:self.searchDisplayController.searchBar];
self.searchDisplayController.searchBar.backgroundColor = yourUIColor;