[ios] Change font size of UISegmentedControl

Can anyone please tell me how can I change the font type and size of UISegmentedControl?

Another option is to apply a transform to the control. However, it will scale down everything including the control borders.

segmentedControl.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(.6f, .6f);

Here is a Swift version of the accepted answer:

Swift 3:

let font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16)
segmentedControl.setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: font],
                                        for: .normal)

Swift 2.2:

let font = UIFont.systemFontOfSize(16)
segmentedControl.setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: font], 
    forState: UIControlState.Normal)

Daniel pointed me to correct way. I used it like this-

float scaleFactor = 0.8f;

UISegmentedControl *segmentedControl = [[UISegmentedControl alloc]
initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 70, 300/scaleFactor,35)];

[segmentedControl insertSegmentWithTitle:@"..." atIndex:0 animated:NO];
[segmentedControl insertSegmentWithTitle:@"..." atIndex:1 animated:NO];
[segmentedControl insertSegmentWithTitle:@"..." atIndex:2 animated:NO];

segmentedControl.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(scaleFactor, 1);
CGPoint segmentedControlCenter = segmentedControl.center;
segmentedControlCenter.x = self.center.x;
segmentedControl.center = segmentedControlCenter;

// Set font-size and font-femily the way you want
UIFont *objFont = [UIFont fontWithName:@"DroidSans" size:18.0f];

// Add font object to Dictionary
NSDictionary *dictAttributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:objFont forKey:NSFontAttributeName];

// Set dictionary to the titleTextAttributes
[yourSegment setTitleTextAttributes:dictAttributes forState:UIControlStateNormal];

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Use the Appearance API in iOS 5.0+:

[[UISegmentedControl appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIFont fontWithName:@"STHeitiSC-Medium" size:13.0], UITextAttributeFont, nil] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Links: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIAppearance_Protocol/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010906

http://www.raywenderlich.com/4344/user-interface-customization-in-ios-5

this is for objective c add your segmented control name in place of mysegmentedcontrol

UIFont *font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:11.0f];

NSDictionary *attributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:font
                                                            forKey:UITextAttributeFont];

[mySegmentedcontrol setTitleTextAttributes:attributes                                    forState:UIControlStateNormal];

hope it helps

I ran into the same issue. This code sets the font size for the entire segmented control. Something similar might work for setting the font type. Note that this is only available for iOS5+

Obj C:

UIFont *font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:12.0f];
NSDictionary *attributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:font
                                                       forKey:NSFontAttributeName];
[segmentedControl setTitleTextAttributes:attributes 
                                forState:UIControlStateNormal];

EDIT: UITextAttributeFont has been deprecated - use NSFontAttributeName instead.

EDIT #2: For Swift 4 NSFontAttributeName has been changed to NSAttributedStringKey.font.

Swift 5:

let font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16)
segmentedControl.setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.font: font], for: .normal)

Swift 4:

let font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16)
segmentedControl.setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.font: font],
                                        for: .normal)

Swift 3:

let font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16)
segmentedControl.setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: font],
                                        for: .normal)

Swift 2.2:

let font = UIFont.systemFontOfSize(16)
segmentedControl.setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: font], 
    forState: UIControlState.Normal)

Thanks to the Swift implementations from @audrey-gordeev

XCode 8.1, Swift 3

import UIKit
class ViewController: UIViewController {
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        UISegmentedControl.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes(NSDictionary(objects: [UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 24.0)], 
        forKeys: [NSFontAttributeName as NSCopying]) as? [AnyHashable : Any], 
        for: UIControlState.normal)
    }
}

just change the number value (ofSize: 24.0)

You can get at the actual font for the UILabel by recursively examining each of the views starting with the UISegmentedControl. I don't know if this is the best way to do it, but it works.

@interface tmpSegmentedControlTextViewController : UIViewController {
}

@property (nonatomic, assign) IBOutlet UISegmentedControl * theControl;

@end

@implementation tmpSegmentedControlTextViewController

@synthesize theControl; // UISegmentedControl

- (void)viewDidLoad {
  [self printControl:[self theControl]];
  [super viewDidLoad];
}

- (void) printControl:(UIView *) view {
  NSArray * views = [view subviews];
  NSInteger idx,idxMax;
  for (idx = 0, idxMax = views.count; idx < idxMax; idx++) {
    UIView * thisView = [views objectAtIndex:idx];
    UILabel * tmpLabel = (UILabel *) thisView;
    if ([tmpLabel respondsToSelector:@selector(text)]) {
      NSLog(@"TEXT for view %d: %@",idx,tmpLabel.text);
      [tmpLabel setTextColor:[UIColor blackColor]];
    }

    if (thisView.subviews.count) {
      NSLog(@"View has subviews");
      [self printControl:thisView];
    }
  }
}

@end

In the code above I am just setting the text color of the UILabel, but you could grab or set the font property as well I suppose.

Extension for UISegmentedControl for setting Font Size.

extension UISegmentedControl {
    @available(iOS 8.2, *)
    func setFontSize(fontSize: CGFloat) {
            let normalTextAttributes: [NSObject : AnyObject]!
            if #available(iOS 9.0, *) {
                normalTextAttributes = [
                    NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.monospacedDigitSystemFontOfSize(fontSize, weight: UIFontWeightRegular)
                ]
            } else {
                normalTextAttributes = [
                    NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFontOfSize(fontSize, weight: UIFontWeightRegular)
                ]
            }

        self.setTitleTextAttributes(normalTextAttributes, forState: .Normal)
    }
 }

C# / Xamarin:

segment.SetTitleTextAttributes(new UITextAttributes { 
    Font = UIFont.SystemFontOfSize(font_size) }, UIControlState.Normal);

Swift 4

let font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16)
UISegmentedControl.setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: font], for: .normal)

Here i have updated for iOS8

[[UISegmentedControl appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIFont fontWithName:@"STHeitiSC-Medium" size:13.0], NSFontAttributeName, nil] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

In swift 5,

let font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16)
UISegmentedControl.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.font: font], for: .normal)

Swift Style:

UISegmentedControl.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes(NSDictionary(objects: [UIFont.systemFontOfSize(14.0)], forKeys: [NSFontAttributeName]), forState: UIControlState.Normal)

 UISegmentedControl.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes(NSDictionary(objects: [UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16.0)],
                                                                        forKeys: [kCTFontAttributeName as! NSCopying]) as? [AnyHashable : Any],
                                                           for: UIControlState.normal)