The API does not provide a way to do this. You can make a pretty convincing replica yourself using a UIPickerView rather than using UIDatePicker. As the UIDatePicker or UIPickerView don’t have the UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR and even you can’t change UIDatePicker contents’ appearance as its UIControl and not having any delegate so it has its native … Read more
OK, it turns out that you cannot style any UILabel properties using the UIAppearance proxy. While the UILabel class conforms to the UIAppearanceContainer protocol, a check of UILabel.h shows that none of its properties are marked with UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR, the prerequisite for the use of UIAppearance. Bugger.
Update for iOS 9: If you’re targeting iOS 9+ (as of Xcode 7 b1), there is a new method in the UIAppearance protocol which does not use varargs: static func appearanceWhenContainedInInstancesOfClasses(containerTypes: [AnyObject.Type]) -> Self Which can be used like so: UITextField.appearanceWhenContainedInInstancesOfClasses([MyViewController.self]).keyboardAppearance = .Light If you still need to support iOS 8 or earlier, use the … Read more