iOS: REMOVING programmatically added search bar from navigation bar - ios

Scenario
In my app there is a navigation bar with a "magnifying glass" icon in the upper righthand side. When the user taps on this icon the titleView for the navigation bar will be replaced by a UISearchBar.
I added the searchBar with this code...
searchBar = [[UISearchBar alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(-5.0, 0.0, 320.0, 44.0)];
searchBar.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth;
UIView *searchBarView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 310.0, 44.0)];
searchBarView.autoresizingMask = 0;
searchBar.delegate = self;
[searchBarView addSubview:searchBar];
self.navigationItem.titleView = searchBarView;
All of this works perfectly as it should. Now I need to have the UISearchBar disappear when the user ends their editing of the UISearchBar and to be replaced with the titleView's "title" again.
Question
How do I remove the UISearchBar and display the title for the navigation controller after editing?

Try This,
searchBar.hidden = Yes;

I haven't tested it but this should work:
[self.navigationItem.titleView removeFromSuperview];
self.title = #"Nav bar title";

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style:UIBarButtonItemStyleDone
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In iOS 11, the sort button sits right next to the search controller inside the navigation bar, like so:
However, in iOS 10, the buttons moves completely outside of the navigation bar:
My first thought was to constrain the button in willLayoutSubviews, but as there is no view component of the button, I couldn't set translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints to NO. I then checked if it was an issue of placing the search controller inside the navigation bar by removing the search controller completely. Still (in iOS 10) the button stays outside of the navigation bar:
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I needed to release the original button I created for it to correctly stay in the navigation bar as a bar button item.
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBarTintColor:[UIColor blackColor]];
self.navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = NO;
self.navigationItem.titleView = self.searchController.searchBar;
UIBarButtonItem *rightButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:#""
style:UIBarButtonItemStyleDone
target:self
action:#selector(displaySortMenu:)];
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Try to set,
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How come this code is not producing a UINavigationBar on my UIView?
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I see the white view but no NavBar. Any help? What am I doing wrong?
Set the frame of navigation bar and add it as a subview of the view for it to be seen.Set a frame for any view to be positioned in its super view's coordinate system.
[navBar setFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,CGRectGetWidth(view.frame),44)];
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