How can I color a UIImage in Swift?

Question

I have an image called arrowWhite. I want to colour this image to black.

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Answer 1

I ended up with this because other answers either lose resolution or work with UIImageView, not UIImage, or contain unnecessary actions:

Swift 3

extension UIImage {

    public func maskWithColor(color: UIColor) -> UIImage {

        UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(self.size, false, self.scale)
        let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()!

        let rect = CGRect(origin: CGPoint.zero, size: size)

        color.setFill()
        self.draw(in: rect)

        context.setBlendMode(.sourceIn)
        context.fill(rect)

        let resultImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()!
        UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
        return resultImage
    }

}