Presenting UISearchController overlaps with statusbar

Question

I have a UISearchController which I present programmatically when the user touches a button. My problem is that the search bar overlaps the status (see screenshot)

I have the following code which I use to present the UISearchController

func presentSearchController() {
    let resultsController = ResultsViewController()

    self.searchController = UISearchController(searchResultsController: resultsController)
    self.searchController.searchBar.searchBarStyle = .prominent

    searchController.hidesNavigationBarDuringPresentation = false
    searchController.searchResultsUpdater = resultsController

    self.definesPresentationContext = true

    self.present(self.searchController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

Edit: My question is not a duplicate of UISearchBar overlaps status bar in iOS as I am not working directly with the searchbar or it's frame

Answer 1

I have solved the issue by remove the following line:

self.definesPresentationContext = true

The reason this is not required in my scenario is that I am calling self.present(self.searchController, animated: true, completion: nil)

UPDATE:

While the above did fix my issue, it broke the functionality of pushing a viewController in my navigationController while the SearchController was displayed (the searchController would stay on top while the viewController was pushed underneath it)

Upon revisiting the issue, here are the fixes I made:

Add the following

searchController.hidesNavigationBarDuringPresentation = true self.definesPresentationContext = true

Then in the storyboard enable "Under Top Bars" and enable "Under Opaque Bars"