How to prevent UIButton from flashing when updating the title

Question

When I call setTitle on a UIButton, the button flashes in iOS 7. I tried setting myButton.highlighted = NO, but that didn\'t stop the button from flashing.

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Answer 1

Default "setTitle" behavior is definitely hateful!

My solution is:

[UIView setAnimationsEnabled:NO];
[_button layoutIfNeeded]; 
[_button setTitle:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"what" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[UIView setAnimationsEnabled:YES];

Also, in storyboard, under button's property I uncheck:

• Reverses On Highlight
• Highlighted Adjust Image

And check:

• Disabled Adjust Image

Tested and working on iOS 8 too.

Update - Swift

I suggest you to create your custom button and override setTitle method.

class UnflashingButton: UIButton {
   
    override func setTitle(title: String?, forState state: UIControlState) {
        UIView.setAnimationsEnabled(false)
        self.layoutIfNeeded()
        super.setTitle(title, forState: state)
        UIView.setAnimationsEnabled(true)
    }

}