How to remove a UITabBar badge after the user clicks another tab?

Question

I want to remove a badge as soon as the user clicks another tab. I am trying to do:

- (void)viewDidDisappear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewDidDisappear:animated];

    UITabBarItem *tbi = (UITabBarItem *)self.tabController.selectedViewController.tabBarItem;
    tbi.badgeValue = nil;
}

But it doesn't work.

Answer 1

You want to remove a badge from the current tab, or the one touched?

The right place to do this, either way, is in your tab bar controller delegate, in:

- (void)tabBarController:(UITabBarController *)tabBarController didSelectViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController;

Note that this function gets called whenever the user taps on a tab bar button, regardless of whether the new view controller shown is different from the old one, so you'll want to track your current visible view controller. This is where you'll update that, too:

- (void)tabBarController:(UITabBarController *)tabBarController 
        didSelectViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController {
    if(viewController != self.currentTabVC) {
        // if you want to remove the badge from the current tab
        self.currentTabVC.tabBarItem.badgeValue = nil;

        // or from the new tab
        viewController.tabBarItem.badgeValue = nil;

        // update our tab-tracking
        self.currentTabVC = viewController;
    }
}