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

Since I found Darko's answer very helpful in colorizing custom pins for mapView annotations, but had to do some conversions for Swift 3, thought I'd share the updated code along with my recommendation for his answer:

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

        var maskImage = self.CGImage
        let width = self.size.width
        let height = self.size.height
        let bounds = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: width, height: height)

        let colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB()
        let bitmapInfo = CGBitmapInfo(rawValue: CGImageAlphaInfo.premultipliedLast.rawValue)
        let bitmapContext = CGContext(data: nil, width: Int(width), height: Int(height), bitsPerComponent: 8, bytesPerRow: 0, space: colorSpace, bitmapInfo: bitmapInfo.rawValue)

        bitmapContext!.clip(to: bounds, mask: maskImage!)
        bitmapContext!.setFillColor(color.cgColor)
        bitmapContext!.fill(bounds)

        let cImage = bitmapContext!.makeImage()
        let coloredImage = UIImage(CGImage: cImage)

        return coloredImage!
    }
}