UISearchController with nil searchResultsController

Question

I am using UISearchController with UITableView, and using same table view on my base view controller to display the search results (doing with not specifying a seperate search results controller as searchController = UISearchController(searchResultsController: nil) ).

However, despite setting searchResultsController as nil, an empty transparent _UISearchControllerView is still being presenting on top of my view controller when search is active.

Is there a way to prevent this and keep my view controller on the top of the view controller hiearchy on search?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can remove that by setting the dimsBackgroundDuringPresentation property of search controller to false

searchController.dimsBackgroundDuringPresentation = false