The problem which I can't get through is that the UIActivityIndicatorView in my View doesn't start animating when I execute 

```
[UIActivityIndicatorView startAnimating];

```

In

```
searchBarSearchButtonClicked

```

This is my code:

```
- (void)searchBarSearchButtonClicked:(UISearchBar *)searchBar
{
    [searchBar resignFirstResponder];

    NSString *causeStr = nil;

    if ([CLLocationManager locationServicesEnabled] == NO)
    {
        causeStr = @"device";
    }
    else if ([CLLocationManager authorizationStatus] == kCLAuthorizationStatusDenied)
    {
        causeStr = @"app";
    }
    else
    {
        [_activityIndicatorView startAnimating];

        _searchPlacesResults = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];

        NSString * searchQuery = [searchBar text];

        FTGooglePlacesAPINearbySearchRequest *request = [[FTGooglePlacesAPINearbySearchRequest alloc] initWithLocationCoordinate:locationManager.location.coordinate];
        request.rankBy = FTGooglePlacesAPIRequestParamRankByDistance;
        request.keyword = searchQuery;
        request.radius = 500;
        [self startSearchingPlaces:request];
    }

    if (causeStr != nil)
    {
        NSString *alertMessage = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"You currently have location services disabled for this %@. Please refer to \"Settings\" app to turn on Location Services.", causeStr];

        [[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Location Services Disabled"
                                    message:alertMessage
                                   delegate:nil
                          cancelButtonTitle:@"OK"
                          otherButtonTitles:nil] show];
    }
}

```

Nothing happens until I clear the search results from the tableView connected to the UISearchBar using its cancel button.

I have tried and verified that 

```
[UIActivityIndicatorView startAnimating];

```

actually works when called from other methods.

EDIT:
I have also verified that my UIActivityIndicatorView is not null, in fact this is what I get when I NSLog it:

```
<UIActivityIndicatorView: 0x16e91ed0; frame = (150 274; 20 20); hidden = YES; opaque = NO; autoresize = RM+BM; layer = <CALayer: 0x16e91f90>>

```