How to stop unwanted UIButton animation on title change?

Question

In iOS 7 my UIButton titles are animating in and out at the wrong time - late. This problem does not appear on iOS 6. I\'m just using:

[self setTitle:text fo         


        

Answer 1

I've found that this workaround works with UIButtonTypeSystem as well but will only work if the button is enabled for some reason.

[UIView setAnimationsEnabled:NO];
[_button setTitle:@"title" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[UIView setAnimationsEnabled:YES];

So you'll have to add these if you need the button to be disabled when setting its title.

[UIView setAnimationsEnabled:NO];
_button.enabled = YES;
[_button setTitle:@"title" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
_button.enabled = NO;
[UIView setAnimationsEnabled:YES];

(iOS 7, Xcode 5)

Answer 2

Combining above great answers results in following workaround for UIButtonTypeSystem:

if (_button.enabled)
{
    [UIView setAnimationsEnabled:NO];
    [_button setTitle:@"title" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    [UIView setAnimationsEnabled:YES];
}
else // disabled
{
    [UIView setAnimationsEnabled:NO];
    _button.enabled = YES;
    [_button setTitle:@"title" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    _button.enabled = NO;
    [UIView setAnimationsEnabled:YES];
}

Answer 3

You can actually set the title outside of an animation block, just be sure to call layoutIfNeeded() inside a performWithoutAnimation:

button1.setTitle("abc", forState: .Normal)
button2.setTitle("abc", forState: .Normal)
button3.setTitle("abc", forState: .Normal)
UIView.performWithoutAnimation {
    self.button1.layoutIfNeeded()
    self.button2.layoutIfNeeded()
    self.button3.layoutIfNeeded()
}

If you have a bunch of buttons, consider just calling layoutIfNeeded() on the super view:

button1.setTitle("abc", forState: .Normal)
button2.setTitle("abc", forState: .Normal)
button3.setTitle("abc", forState: .Normal)
UIView.performWithoutAnimation {
    self.view.layoutIfNeeded()
}

Answer 4

UIButton with system type has implicit animation on setTitle(_:for:). You can fix it two different ways:

1. Set the button type to custom, either from code or Interface Builder:

let button = UIButton(type: .custom)

2. Disable animation from code:

UIView.performWithoutAnimation {
    button.setTitle(title, for: .normal)
    button.layoutIfNeeded()
}

Answer 5

You can remove the animations from from the title label's layer:

    [[[theButton titleLabel] layer] removeAllAnimations];

Answer 6

Set the button type to UIButtonTypeCustom and it'll stop flashing