Enable Search button when searching string is empty in default search bar
Actually you can just set searchBar.enablesReturnKeyAutomatically = NO;
Tested on iOS 7+
This code display Search Button if you have empty string.
- (void)searchBarTextDidBeginEditing:(UISearchBar *)searchBar
{
[self.searchBar setShowsCancelButton:YES animated:YES];
self.tblView.allowsSelection = NO;
self.tblView.scrollEnabled = NO;
UITextField *searchBarTextField = nil;
for (UIView *subview in self.searchBar.subviews)
{
if ([subview isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]])
{
searchBarTextField = (UITextField *)subview;
break;
}
}
searchBarTextField.enablesReturnKeyAutomatically = NO;
}