Changing tab bar item image and text color iOS

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Here is my tab bar     The following image shows the program being run and the  NEWS  item selected     It is clear the bar tint color is working fine as I want    But the tintColor only affects the image and not the text   Also  when the an item is selected  as seen above  news  the item color goes blue  How do I prevent this from happening  I want it to stay white   Why is the text changing to a white color when selected but not when it is unselected   I basically want the item color and text color to be white all the time   How do I achieve this  Thanks for any help   Does it require swift code for each individual item   EDIT

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I know here are lots of answers but I can't find an easy and valid copy/paste answer for Swift 4.2/ Swift 5.1

tabBarController?.tabBar.tintColor = UIColor.red
tabBarController?.tabBar.unselectedItemTintColor = UIColor.green

Or use UITabBar.appearances() instead of tabBarController?.tabBar like this:

UITabBar.appearances().tintColor = UIColor.red
UITabBar.appearances().unselectedItemTintColor = UIColor.green

Images have to be UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysTemplate

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Swift 4  In your UITabBarController change it by this code  tabBar unselectedItemTintColor    black

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For Swift 4 0  it s now changed as   tabBarItem setTitleTextAttributes  NSAttributedStringKey foregroundColor  UIColor gray   for   normal  tabBarItem setTitleTextAttributes  NSAttributedStringKey foregroundColor  UIColor blue   for   selected    You don t have to subclass the UITabBarItem if your requirement is only to change the text color  Just put the above code inside your view controller s viewDidLoad function   For global settings change tabBarItem to UITabBarItem appearance

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Swift 5   let homeTab   UITabBarItem title   Home   image  UIImage named   YOUR IMAGE NAME FROM ASSETS    withRenderingMode UIImage RenderingMode alwaysOriginal   tag  1

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Swift 5 3 let vc   UIViewController   vc tabBarItem title    quot sample quot  vc tabBarItem image   UIImage imageLiteralResourceName   quot image png quot   withRenderingMode  alwaysOriginal  vc tabBarItem selectedImage   UIImage imageLiteralResourceName   quot image png quot   withRenderingMode  alwaysOriginal              for text displayed below the tabBar item UITabBarItem appearance   setTitleTextAttributes  NSAttributedString Key foregroundColor  UIColor black   for   selected

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From here   Each tab bar item has a title  selected image  unselected image  and a badge value   Use the Image Tint  selectedImageTintColor  field to specify the bar item   s tint color when that tab is selected  By default  that color is blue

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Swift 3 0  I created the tabbar class file and wrote the following code  In viewDidLoad   self tabBar barTintColor   UIColor white self tabBar isTranslucent   true  let selectedColor     UIColor red let unselectedColor   UIColor cyan  UITabBarItem appearance   setTitleTextAttributes  NSForegroundColorAttributeName  unselectedColor NSFontAttributeName  UIFont name   Gotham-Book   size  10     for   normal  UITabBarItem appearance   setTitleTextAttributes  NSForegroundColorAttributeName  selectedColor NSFontAttributeName  UIFont name   Gotham-Book   size  10     for   selected   if let items   self tabBar items       for item in items           if let image   item image               item image   image withRenderingMode   alwaysOriginal               item selectedImage   UIImage named    Imagename -a    withRenderingMode  alwaysOriginal                      After viewDidLoad      override func tabBar   tabBar  UITabBar  didSelect item  UITabBarItem        if item title      title            item selectedImage   UIImage named    Imagname -a    withRenderingMode  alwaysOriginal             if item title      title                 item selectedImage   UIImage named    Imagname -a    withRenderingMode  alwaysOriginal             if item title      title                 item selectedImage   UIImage named    Imagname -a    withRenderingMode  alwaysOriginal             if item title      title                 item selectedImage   UIImage named    Imagname -a    withRenderingMode  alwaysOriginal             if item title      title                 item selectedImage   UIImage named    Imagname -a    withRenderingMode  alwaysOriginal              in view did load method you have to set the selected image and other image are showing with RenderingMode  and in tab bar delegate methods you set the selected image as per title

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Subclass your TabbarViewController and in ViewDidLoad put this code     UITabBarItem appearance setTitleTextAttributes   NSForegroundColorAttributeName    UIColor darkGreyColorBT   forState UIControlStateNormal        UITabBarItem appearance setTitleTextAttributes   NSForegroundColorAttributeName    UIColor nightyDarkColorBT   forState UIControlStateSelected        self tabBar items 0  image      UIImage imageNamed   ic-pack off 3x png    imageWithRenderingMode UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal       self tabBar items 0  selectedImage      UIImage imageNamed   ic-pack 3x png    imageWithRenderingMode UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal       self tabBar items 1  image     UIImage imageNamed   ic-sleeptracker off 3x png   imageWithRenderingMode UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal       self tabBar items 1  selectedImage      UIImage imageNamed   ic-sleeptracker 3x png   imageWithRenderingMode UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal       self tabBar items 2  image     UIImage imageNamed   ic-profile off 3x png   imageWithRenderingMode UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal       self tabBar items 2  selectedImage      UIImage imageNamed   ic-profile 3x png   imageWithRenderingMode UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal     This is the simplest working solution I have

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You may also do by this way   override func viewWillLayoutSubviews         if let items   self tabBar items       for item in 0   lt items count         items item  image   items item  image  withRenderingMode  alwaysOriginal              items item  selectedImage   items item  selectedImage  withRenderingMode  alwaysTemplate          Optional    UITabBar appearance   tintColor   UIColor red   I hope it will help you

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Swift 3  First of all  make sure you have added the BOOLEAN key  View controller-based status bar appearance  to Info plist  and set the value to  NO    Appdelegate swift  Insert code somewhere after  launchOptions  UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey  Any    -  Bool      Change the color of the tab bar itself with RGB color value    UITabBar appearance   barTintColor   UIColor red  0 145  green  0 592  blue  0 804  alpha  1 00    OR one of the default UI colors   UITabBar appearance   barTintColor   UIColor white       Change the text color of the tab items    The selected item   UITabBarItem appearance   setTitleTextAttributes  NSForegroundColorAttributeName  UIColor white   for   selected   The inactive items  UITabBarItem appearance   setTitleTextAttributes  NSForegroundColorAttributeName  UIColor black   for   normal    To change the color of the image  I believe the easiest approach is to make to separate images  one for each state     If you don  t make the icons from scratch  alternating black and white versions are relatively easy to make in Photoshop     Adobe Photoshop  almost any version will do   Make sure your icon image has transparent background  and the icon itself is solid black  or close    Open the image file  save it under a different file name  e g  exampleFilename-Inverted png   In the  Adjustments  submenu on the  Image  menu   Click  Invert   You now have a negative of your original icon   In XCode  set one of the images as  Selected Image  under the Tab Bar Properties in your storyboard  and specify the  inactive  version under  Bar Item  image    Ta-Da

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Year  2020 iOS 13 3 Copy below codes to AppDelegate swift - gt  func didFinishLaunchingWithOptions   Set Tab bar text item fonts and size let fontAttributes    NSAttributedString Key font  UIFont name   quot YourFontName quot   size  12 0    UITabBarItem appearance   setTitleTextAttributes fontAttributes  for   normal    Set Tab bar text item color UITabBar appearance   tintColor   UIColor init named   quot YourColorName quot

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In Swift 4 2   UITabBarItem appearance   setTitleTextAttributes  NSAttributedString Key foregroundColor  UIColor white   for   normal  UITabBarItem appearance   setTitleTextAttributes  NSAttributedString Key foregroundColor  UIColor red   for   selected

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Simply add a new UITabBarController reference to the project Next create a reference of UITabBar in this controller    IBOutlet weak var appTabBar  UITabBar    In its viewDidLoad    simply add below for title text color       appTabBar tintColor   UIColor scandidThemeColor     For image      tabBarItem   UITabBarItem title   FirstTab   image  UIImage named   firstImage    selectedImage  UIImage named   firstSelectedImage

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Swift 4 2 and Xcode 10  The solution that worked for me    Image setup - from the storyboard set Bar Item Image and Selected Image  To remove the tint overlay on the images go to Assets catalog  select the image and change its rendering mode like this      This will prevent the Tab bar component from setting its default image tint    Text - here I created a simple UITabBarController subclass and in its viewDidLoad method I customized the default and selected text color like this   class HomeTabBarController  UITabBarController       override func viewDidLoad             super viewDidLoad            let appearance   UITabBarItem appearance whenContainedInInstancesOf   HomeTabBarController self           appearance setTitleTextAttributes  NSAttributedStringKey foregroundColor   black   for   normal          appearance setTitleTextAttributes  NSAttributedStringKey foregroundColor   red   for   selected             Just set this class as your Tab bar controller custom class in identity inspector in IB   Voila  That s it    iOS 13 Update   Add this to your setup for iOS 13   if  available iOS 13           let appearance   UITabBarAppearance       appearance stackedLayoutAppearance selected titleTextAttributes    NSAttributedString Key foregroundColor   red      tabBar standardAppearance   appearance

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This Code works for Swift 4 if you want to change the image of Tab Bar Item when pressed  Copy and paste in the first viewDidLoad method that is hit in the project     let arrayOfImageNameForSelectedState  String      Image1Color    Image2Color   Image3Color      let arrayOfImageNameForUnselectedState   String      Image1NoColor   Image2NoColor   Image3NoColor         print self tabBarController  tabBar items  count       if let count   self tabBarController  tabBar items  count           for i in 0    count-1                let imageNameForSelectedState     arrayOfImageNameForSelectedState i              print imageNameForSelectedState              let imageNameForUnselectedState   arrayOfImageNameForUnselectedState i              print imageNameForUnselectedState              self tabBarController  tabBar items  i  selectedImage   UIImage named  imageNameForSelectedState   withRenderingMode  alwaysOriginal              self tabBarController  tabBar items  i  image   UIImage named  imageNameForUnselectedState   withRenderingMode  alwaysOriginal

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From UITabBarItem class docs      By default  the actual unselected and selected images are   automatically created from the alpha values in the source images  To   prevent system coloring  provide images with   UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal    The clue is not whether you use UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal  the important thing is when to use it   To prevent the grey color for unselected items  you will just need to prevent the system colouring for the unselected image  Here is how to do this   var firstViewController UIViewController   UIViewController      The following statement is what you need var customTabBarItem UITabBarItem   UITabBarItem title  nil  image  UIImage named   YOUR IMAGE NAME    imageWithRenderingMode UIImageRenderingMode AlwaysOriginal   selectedImage  UIImage named   YOUR IMAGE NAME    firstViewController tabBarItem   customTabBarItem   As you can see  I asked iOS to apply the original color  white  yellow  red  whatever  of the image ONLY for the UNSELECTED state  and leave the image as it is for the SELECTED state   Also  you may need to add a tint color for the tab bar in order to apply a different color for the SELECTED state  instead of the default iOS blue color   As per your screenshot above  you are applying white color for the selected state   self tabBar tintColor   UIColor whiteColor     EDIT

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Swift 3  I did it by creating a custom tabbar controller and added this code inside the viewDidLoad method       if let count   self tabBar items  count           for i in 0    count-1                let imageNameForSelectedState     arrayOfImageNameForSelectedState i              let imageNameForUnselectedState   arrayOfImageNameForUnselectedState i               self tabBar items  i  selectedImage   UIImage named  imageNameForSelectedState   withRenderingMode  alwaysOriginal              self tabBar items  i  image   UIImage named  imageNameForUnselectedState   withRenderingMode  alwaysOriginal                       let selectedColor     UIColor red  246 0 255 0  green  155 0 255 0  blue  13 0 255 0  alpha  1 0      let unselectedColor   UIColor red  16 0 255 0  green  224 0 255 0  blue  223 0 255 0  alpha  1 0       UITabBarItem appearance   setTitleTextAttributes  NSForegroundColorAttributeName  unselectedColor   for   normal      UITabBarItem appearance   setTitleTextAttributes  NSForegroundColorAttributeName  selectedColor   for   selected    It worked for me

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Swift  For Image  custom tabBarItem   UITabBarItem title   quot Home quot   image  UIImage named   quot tab icon normal quot    selectedImage  UIImage named   quot tab icon selected quot      For Text  UITabBarItem appearance   setTitleTextAttributes  NSAttributedString Key foregroundColor  UIColor gray   for   normal       UITabBarItem appearance   setTitleTextAttributes  NSAttributedString Key foregroundColor  UIColor red   for   selected

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Swift 3  This worked for me  referring to set tabBarItems image colors    UITabBar appearance   tintColor   ThemeColor Blue  if let items   tabBarController tabBar items           let tabBarImages   getTabBarImages      tabBarImages   UIImage          for i in 0   lt items count               let tabBarItem   items i              let tabBarImage   tabBarImages i              tabBarItem image   tabBarImage withRenderingMode  alwaysOriginal              tabBarItem selectedImage   tabBarImage                   I have noticed that if you set image with rendering mode    alwaysOriginal  the UITabBar tintColor doesn t have any effect

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Try add it on AppDelegate swift  inside application method    UITabBar appearance   tintColor   UIColor red  0 255 0  green  0 255 0  blue  0 255 0  alpha  1 0      For WHITE color   UITabBar appearance   tintColor   UIColor red  255 255 0  green  255 255 0  blue  255 255 0  alpha  1 0    Example   func application application  UIApplication  didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions   NSObject  AnyObject    - gt  Bool          Tab bar icon selected color     UITabBar appearance   tintColor   UIColor red  0 255 0  green  0 255 0  blue  0 255 0  alpha  1 0         For WHITE color  UITabBar appearance   tintColor   UIColor red  255 255 0  green  255 255 0  blue  255 255 0  alpha  1 0      return true     Example       My english is so bad  I m sorry   -

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In Swift 5 ioS 13 2 things have changed with TabBar styling  below code work 100   tested out   Add the below code in your UITabBarController class   override func viewWillAppear   animated  Bool            super viewWillAppear animated          let appearance   UITabBarAppearance           appearance backgroundColor    white          setTabBarItemColors appearance stackedLayoutAppearance          setTabBarItemColors appearance inlineLayoutAppearance          setTabBarItemColors appearance compactInlineLayoutAppearance           setTabBarItemBadgeAppearance appearance stackedLayoutAppearance          setTabBarItemBadgeAppearance appearance inlineLayoutAppearance          setTabBarItemBadgeAppearance appearance compactInlineLayoutAppearance           tabBar standardAppearance   appearance      available iOS 13 0     private func setTabBarItemColors   itemAppearance  UITabBarItemAppearance        itemAppearance normal iconColor    lightGray     itemAppearance normal titleTextAttributes    NSAttributedString Key foregroundColor  UIColor gray       itemAppearance selected iconColor    white     itemAppearance selected titleTextAttributes    NSAttributedString Key foregroundColor  UIColor orange      available iOS 13 0     private func setTabBarItemBadgeAppearance   itemAppearance  UITabBarItemAppearance          Adjust the badge position as well as set its color     itemAppearance normal badgeBackgroundColor    orange     itemAppearance normal badgeTextAttributes    NSAttributedString Key foregroundColor  UIColor white      itemAppearance normal badgePositionAdjustment   UIOffset horizontal  1  vertical  -1

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you can set tintColor of UIBarItem    UITabBarItem appearance   setTitleTextAttributes  NSForegroundColorAttributeName  UIColor magentaColor     forState  Normal  UITabBarItem appearance   setTitleTextAttributes  NSForegroundColorAttributeName  UIColor redColor     forState  Selected

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