UISearchBar: changing background color of input field

Question

I'm trying to change the background color of input field of UISearchBar.It's the rounded view where you input text to search, the default color is white. I would like to change it to gray

I tried:

for (UIView *subView in searchBar.subviews) {
    if ([subView isKindOfClass:NSClassFromString(@"UITextField")]) {
        UITextField *textField = (UITextField *)subView;
        [textField setBackgroundColor:[UIColor grayColor]];
    }

But it doesn't work :(

I also tried to insert an image view to TextField but it seems the rounded view is separate from TextField. So, any clues?

Answer 1

=)

for (UIView *subView in _searchBar.subviews) {
    for(id field in subView.subviews){
        if ([field isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]]) {
            UITextField *textField = (UITextField *)field;
            [textField setBackgroundColor:[UIColor grayColor]];
        }
    }
}