UIButton - Keep text black when touched

Question

I have an iPhone UIButton (Custom) which has a background image and text.

When touched, the image darkens (Good) but the text goes from the set Black to white.

How do I keep the text the same black so that when the button is touched, only the image changes color.

Answer 1

Most of the times, the following line will do:

[button setTitleColor:[UIColor blackColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

If nothing happens, then use either this:

[button setTitleColor:[UIColor blackColor] forState:(UIControlStateSelected | UIControlStateHighlighted | UIControlStateNormal)];

Or this will do the trick:

[button setTitleColor:[UIColor blackColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[button setTitleColor:[UIColor blackColor] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];
[button setTitleColor:[UIColor blackColor] forState:UIControlStateSelected];

See comments below for reason this answer was edited/expanded to include the 2 separate lines.

Answer 2

[button setTitleColor:[UIColor blackColor] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted]