Custom UITabBar unselected item's color

Question

I am trying to change the default grey colour of the unselected UITabBarItems. I have managed to change the text but not the image.

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TabBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor(red: 86.0/255.0, green: 132.0/255.0, blue: 208.0/255.0, alpha: 1.0)

var normalTint: UIColor = UIColor.whiteColor()

TabBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()

UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName: normalTint,NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "Arial", size: 13)!], forState: UIControlState.Normal)

score 15 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 08 '17 at 20:11

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iOS 10 | Swift 3

class TabBarVC: UITabBarController {

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        // make unselected icons white
        self.tabBar.unselectedItemTintColor = UIColor.white
    }
}

answered Jan 08 '17 at 20:11

Derek Soike

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It works, great. Didn't checked the iOS10 documentation. – raja May 29 '17 at 03:36

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 10 '15 at 10:52

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you can use .AlwaysOriginal

tabBarItem.selectedImage = UIImage(named: "first-selected")!.imageWithRenderingMode(.AlwaysOriginal)

answered Jun 10 '15 at 10:52

Özgür Ersil

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered May 29 '17 at 03:41

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If you want to set unselected icons to specific color through Storyboard.
You can do it through 'User defined runtime attributes', without adding the codes.

answered May 29 '17 at 03:41

raja

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I used this and receive this error in iOS 9 : this class is not key value coding-compliant for the key unselectedItemTintColor.\ – Saeed Rahmatolahi Nov 16 '17 at 22:36

Custom UITabBar unselected item's color

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