1 min readMay 25, 2020
I remember asking this question a while back and receiving some beautiful answers, which don’t require drilling down in the view hierarchy.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11827585/uisearchbar-change-placeholder-color
As I am not investing time into iOS so much, I haven’t checked if the stack overflow solution still works, but if it does, using the iOS appearance proxy is many times better than searching UIViews one by one.