Why doesn't tintColor set to whiteColor on iOS 9?

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Created Sep ’15

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Greetings.

I have several UIBarButtonItems on a transparent navigation bar. The background of the view underneath the app is a dark blue.

On iOS 9 GM (and all the betas before that), although I set the navigation controller.view.tintColor to whiteColor it shows up as a dull gray. The same iOS 9 app works fine on iOS 8. Similarly if I run the iOS 8 version of my app (from the app store) on iOS 9, the tint of the buttons comes up gray as well.

Both iOS 9 and iOS 8 versions of my app show the tint color properly set to white on iOS 8. Also the tintColor is set properly on an iOS 9 simulator.

Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

Answered by neal1 in 56942022

This has been fixed in iOS 9.1

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Answer 1

Frameworks Engineer OP

Apple

Sep ’15

Can you submit a bug report with an example application and report the bug number here? Thanks!

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neal1 OP

Sep ’15

Bug Report # 22688789

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neal1 OP

Sep ’15

Accepted Answer

This has been fixed in iOS 9.1

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uacs OP

Sep ’15

Same problem is happening to me as well, but only on the iPad Air with iOS 9.0.

The iPhone 6 / 6+ with iOS 9 display the correct white color.

Is there a work-around that we can use?

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Frameworks Engineer OP

Apple

Sep ’15

How are you setting your tint color? Typically you set it once for the whole application (by setting the window's tint color) in -applicationDidFinishLaunching: and your done. Using other methods may result in your tintColor only being set for a subset of your views, which may cause some of the symptoms you see (why it would be white instead of the default color is a bit of a mystery however).

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