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, … Read more
You should play with imageInsets property of UITabBarItem. Here is sample code: let tabBarItem = UITabBarItem(title: nil, image: UIImage(named: “more”) tabBarItem.imageInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 9, left: 0, bottom: -9, right: 0) Values inside UIEdgeInsets depend on your image size. Here is the result of that code in my app:
According to the Apple Human Interface Guidelines: @1x : about 25 x 25 (max: 48 x 32) @2x : about 50 x 50 (max: 96 x 64) @3x : about 75 x 75 (max: 144 x 96)
Try adjusting tabBarItem‘s imageInsets (for moving the icon image) and setting the controllers title to nil (so no title is displayed). Put something like this to -init or -viewDidLoad method in view controller: Objective-C self.tabBarItem.imageInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(6, 0, -6, 0); self.title = nil; Swift self.tabBarItem.imageInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 6, left: 0, bottom: -6, right: 0) self.title … Read more
Add Runtime Color attribute named “tintColor” from StoryBoard. This is working(for Xcode 8 and above). if you want unselected color.. you can add unselectedItemTintColor too.