How to change the text color on UINavigationBar button items

Question

I\'ve got a UINavigationController and i\'ve changed it to white using the Tint property of the navigation bar in Interface Builder. But the text in buttons and the title is

Answer 1

Here's one way:

[[theNavigationBar.subviews objectAtIndex:1] setTitleColor:[UIColor redColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[[theNavigationBar.subviews objectAtIndex:2] setTitleColor:[UIColor redColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

However, HUGE, caveat. This is highly likely to break on a future OS release and is not recommended.

At the very least you should perform a lot of testing and make sure you your assumptions of the subview layout of the navigation bar are correct.