iosswiftuikituisearchcontroller

Adjust insets of UISearchController's searchBar

I'm trying out some designs and I'd like to have an equal 25px margin for all my subviews. UISearchController's searchBar has a 16px padding on either sides out of the box. Do I have to write the search bar textfield from scratch, or is there ANY way, undocumented, swizzling, or otherwise, to accomplish offsetting the native bar to my taste?

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Solution

  • If you are using a UISearchController you can set the margins of the searchBar like this (assuming searchBar is the UISearchController instance):

    let directionalMargins = NSDirectionalEdgeInsets(top: 0, leading: 25, bottom: 0, trailing: 25)
searchController.searchBar.directionalLayoutMargins = directionalMargins