uitabbaritem

Try adjusting tabBarItem‘s imageInsets (for moving the icon image) and setting the controllers title to nil (so no title is displayed). Put something like this to -init or -viewDidLoad method in view controller: Objective-C self.tabBarItem.imageInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(6, 0, -6, 0); self.title = nil; Swift self.tabBarItem.imageInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 6, left: 0, bottom: -6, right: 0) self.title … Read more