How to set UITabBarItem's unselected tint, ***including system items*** (iOS7)

Question

(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

Answer 1

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 tabs
• unselectedItemTintColor applies to all unselected tabs