swift - Change UIBarButtonItem from UISearchBar

Question

I'd like to change the text font and color of the Cancel button inside the UISearchBar in iOS 8. I've tried the solutions for iOS 6 and 7 already and they don't seem to work.

Answer 1

This was not the solution I was looking for, but it worked.

let cancelButtonAttributes: NSDictionary = [NSFontAttributeName: FONT_REGULAR_16!, NSForegroundColorAttributeName: COLOR_BLUE]
UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes(cancelButtonAttributes, forState: UIControlState.Normal)