(NOTE: I see there are several similar questions on SO, but none of them seem to get at my specific issue of wanting to change the unselected appearance of
In iOS 10 UITabBar exposes unselectedItemTintColor that you can use to specify the tint of unselected items. See the docs for more.
This means when you are configuring a tab bar you have the following tint options:
tintColor applies to the selected tabsunselectedItemTintColor applies to all unselected tabs