UISegmentedControl selected segment color

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Here is the absolute simplest way to change the selected segment to any RGB color. No subclassing or hacks required.

segmentedControl.segmentedControlStyle = UISegmentedControlStyleBar;

UIColor *newTintColor = [UIColor colorWithRed: 251/255.0 green:175/255.0 blue:93/255.0 alpha:1.0];
    segmentedControl.tintColor = newTintColor;

UIColor *newSelectedTintColor = [UIColor colorWithRed: 0/255.0 green:175/255.0 blue:0/255.0 alpha:1.0];
[[[segmentedControl subviews] objectAtIndex:0] setTintColor:newSelectedTintColor];

This example shows the important steps:

  1. Sets the control style to
    “StyleBar”, which is required for it
    to work
  2. Sets the un-selected color for the
    entire control first to orange
  3. Sets the color of the selected
    segment to green

Notes:

  • Steps 1 and 2 can be done in
    interface builder, or in code as
    shown. However step 3 can only be done
    in code
  • The color values being set with
    notation like this “123.0/255.0” is
    just a way to make the RGB values
    stand out instead the normalized
    float values required by UIColor
    (just ignore it if you like)

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