How to stop unwanted UIButton animation on title change?

Question

In iOS 7 my UIButton titles are animating in and out at the wrong time - late. This problem does not appear on iOS 6. I\'m just using:

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Answer 1

I got the ugly animation problem when changing button titles in view controllers within a UITabBarController. The titles that were originally set in the storyboard showed up for a short while before fading into their new values.

I wanted to iterate through all subviews and use the button titles as keys to get their localized values with NSLocalizedString, such as;

for(UIView *v in view.subviews) {

    if ([v isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]) {
        UIButton *btn = (UIButton*)v;
        NSString *newTitle = NSLocalizedString(btn.titleLabel.text, nil);
        [btn setTitle:newTitle];
    }

}

I found out that what's triggering the animation is really the call to btn.titleLabel.text. So to still make use of the storyboards and have the components dynamically localized like this I make sure to set every button's Restoration ID (in Identity Inspector) to the same as the title and use that as key instead of the title;

for(UIView *v in view.subviews) {

    if ([v isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]) {
        UIButton *btn = (UIButton*)v;
        NSString *newTitle = NSLocalizedString(btn.restorationIdentifier, nil);
        [btn setTitle:newTitle];
    }

}

Not ideal, but works..