I have a UISearchBar that I want to display when the user taps a button. In the buttonPress method, I create the searchBar and add it as a subview, then call `[searchBar becomeFirstResponder]`. If I take out this becomeFirstResponder call, the search icon and placeholder text appear in the center of the textField.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CEzaG.png)

Then, when the search bar becomes first responder, both animate to be left-aligned. 

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NFegN.png)

Because I'm doing both actions successively, I'm getting a weird animation where the icon & placeholder animate from (0,0).

How can I disable this animation, so that I can simply add the second image to my view?

**EDIT:**

I got the placeholder text to display correctly by using

```
- (void)searchBarTextDidBeginEditing:(UISearchBar *)searchBar
{
    [searchBar setPlaceholder:@"Type Here to Search"];
}

```

I can move the search icon using `[searchBar setPositionAdjustment:UIOffsetMake(x, y) forSearchBarIcon:UISearchBarIconSearch];`, but the changes are still applied within the animation.