Don’t you wish you could scroll in the image above and keep the search bar floating at the top?

Two steps:

Uno. Add the UIScrollViewDelegate protocol to your interface:

Dos. Implement the scrollViewDidScroll protocol method:

Done. So easy.

But I kind of also want the search text field to be larger (increase its height). How hard can that be?

Well, as it turns out, pretty hard. After spending 1+ hour researching posts like this one, I gave up. I guess it looks OK the way Steve Jobs designed it.

Welcome to iOS.