How to change font color of UISegmentedControl

Question

I try to change font color from white to black for UISegmentedControl (for iOS 4.*)

UISegmentedControl *button = [[[UISegmentedControl alloc] initWithItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:itemTitle, nil]] autorelease]; button.momentary = YES; button.segmentedControlStyle = UISegmentedControlStyleBar; button.tintColor = [UIColor redColor];       for (id segment in [button subviews]) {     for (id label in [segment subviews]) {         if ([label isKindOfClass:[UILabel class]]) {             UILabel *titleLabel = (UILabel *) label;             [titleLabel setTextColor:[UIColor blackColor]];         }     } } UIBarButtonItem *barButtonItem = [[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:button] autorelease]; 

But text color does not changed. What I should do for change text color for UISegmentedControl?

Answer 1

In iOS 6.0 and above it's very simple:

NSDictionary *attributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:                             [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:17], NSFontAttributeName,                             [UIColor blackColor], NSForegroundColorAttributeName,                             nil]; [_segmentedControl setTitleTextAttributes:attributes forState:UIControlStateNormal]; NSDictionary *highlightedAttributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:[UIColor whiteColor] forKey:NSForegroundColorAttributeName]; [_segmentedControl setTitleTextAttributes:highlightedAttributes forState:UIControlStateSelected]; 

Answer 2

If you need to change the text color of the highlighted segment in iOS 7, here is a solution (took me awhile to find, but thanks to this post):

Objective-C

[[UISegmentedControl appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor blackColor]} forState:UIControlStateSelected]; 

Swift

  let titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.whiteColor()]     UISegmentedControl.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes(titleTextAttributes, forState: .Selected)