UISearchController searchbar in a tableview header leaves status bar sized gap

Question

Im using a UIViewController with a tableView. I've setup a searchcontroller and embed the searchbar into the tableview header. When i search it leaves a status bar sized gap between the tableview and the uiview above it. I realize there are a lot of other questions on SO about this but none of them solved this problem.

Here is the code for setting up the searchbar:

self.searchController = [[UISearchController alloc] initWithSearchResultsController:nil];
self.searchController.searchResultsUpdater = self;
self.searchController.dimsBackgroundDuringPresentation = NO;
self.searchController.hidesNavigationBarDuringPresentation = YES;
self.searchController.searchBar.delegate = self;
self.searchController.searchBar.backgroundImage = [UIImage new];
self.searchController.searchBar.backgroundColor = kBlueNavBarColor;
self.searchController.searchBar.tintColor = [UIColor whiteColor];

self.tableView.tableHeaderView = self.searchController.searchBar;
self.definesPresentationContext = YES;

Yan Yan · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-13T01:34:34

I had a similar issue when showing a UIViewController modally. The navigation bar was going up too far. I resized the navigation bar made it a little bit wider. Let me know if this helps. This issue started with iOS 7. You might not need to check the version.

float currentVersion = 7.0;
    if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] >= currentVersion) {
        // iOS 7
        self.navBar.frame = CGRectMake(self.navBar.frame.origin.x, self.navBar.frame.origin.y, self.navBar.frame.size.width, 64);
    }

UISearchController searchbar in a tableview header leaves status bar sized gap

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