To customize the visual look of a UISlider you can set the thumb and track images. Part of the track images gets stretched to the appropriate with. From the documentation:
I know it's late answer.
But I solved the problem as the following:
4 is the width of the round cap in the png file.
UIImage *minimum = [UIImage imageNamed:@"slider_minimum.png"];
[slider setMinimumTrackImage:[minimum stretchableImageWithLeftCapWidth:4 topCapHeight:0]
forState:UIControlStateNormal];