The way to do it is to use NSAttributedString
like this:
NSMutableAttributedString *text =
[[NSMutableAttributedString alloc]
initWithAttributedString: label.attributedText];
[text addAttribute:NSForegroundColorAttributeName
value:[UIColor redColor]
range:NSMakeRange(10, 1)];
[label setAttributedText: text];
I created a UILabel
extension to do it.