Change text color in UIActionSheet buttons

Question

In my project, I am using UIActionSheet for displaying for some sorting type. I want to change the color of the text displayed in the action sheet buttons. How can we change the text color?

Answer 1

iOS 8: UIActionSheet is deprecated. UIAlertController respects -[UIView tintColor], so this works:

alertController.view.tintColor = [UIColor redColor];

Better yet, set the whole window's tint color in your application delegate:

self.window.tintColor = [UIColor redColor];

iOS 7: In your action sheet delegate, implement -willPresentActionSheet: as follows:

- (void)willPresentActionSheet:(UIActionSheet *)actionSheet
{
    for (UIView *subview in actionSheet.subviews) {
        if ([subview isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]) {
            UIButton *button = (UIButton *)subview;
            [button setTitleColor:[UIColor redColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

In iOS 8, none of this works anymore. UIActionSheet text seems to get its color from window.tintColor.

Answer 3

This works for me in iOS8

[[UIView appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UIAlertController class], nil] setTintColor:[UIColor redColor]];

Answer 4

If ever you want to go through the UIActionSheet's subviews, you should not directly set the text color of the UILabel but use the UIButton setTitleColor:forState method instead. Otherwise, the initial color will be set back upon events like UIControlEventTouchDragOutside for example.

Here is the proper way to do it, reusing the jrc's code:

- (void)willPresentActionSheet:(UIActionSheet *)actionSheet
{
    for (UIView *subview in actionSheet.subviews) {
        if ([subview isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]) {
            UIButton *button = (UIButton *)subview;
            [button setTitleColor:[UIColor redColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
        }
    }
}

Answer 5

May be a late answer but I figure it could help someone.

iOS 8: You could simply initialize your UIAlertAction with the style: UIAlertActionStyleDestructive like so:

UIAlertAction *delete = [UIAlertAction actionWithTitle:@"Delete" style:UIAlertActionStyleDestructive handler:^(UIAlertAction *action){

   // your code in here   

}];

This will make the button's text red by default.