Unable to change text color in a search bar for iOS 7

Question

I need to change the text color in an UISearchBar text field. I tried the two answers in this post:

UISearchBar text color change in iOS 7

But the text remains in its default gray color. I set that code in the viewDidLoad method. What can I be missing? Did somebody have this same problem?

Thanks

Answer 1

[[UITextField appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UISearchBar class], nil] setTextColor:[UIColor blueColor]];

//This is done in Xcode 5.0 and its working btw i don't know whether it works with previous versions of Xcode or not....
// Also I wrote this method in viewDidLoad

Answer 2

// Get the instance of the UITextField of the search bar
UITextField *searchField = [self.searchBar valueForKey:@"_searchField"];

// Change search bar text color
searchField.textColor = [UIColor blueColor];