How to change the colors of a segment in a UISegmentedControl in iOS 13?

Question

A UISegmentedControl has a new appearance in iOS 13 and existing code to alter the colors of the segmented control no longer work as they did.

Prior to

Answer 1

iOS13 UISegmentController

how to use:

segment.setOldLayout(tintColor: .green)

extension UISegmentedControl
{
    func setOldLayout(tintColor: UIColor)
    {
        if #available(iOS 13, *)
        {
            let bg = UIImage(color: .clear, size: CGSize(width: 1, height: 32))
             let devider = UIImage(color: tintColor, size: CGSize(width: 1, height: 32))

             //set background images
             self.setBackgroundImage(bg, for: .normal, barMetrics: .default)
             self.setBackgroundImage(devider, for: .selected, barMetrics: .default)

             //set divider color
             self.setDividerImage(devider, forLeftSegmentState: .normal, rightSegmentState: .normal, barMetrics: .default)

             //set border
             self.layer.borderWidth = 1
             self.layer.borderColor = tintColor.cgColor

             //set label color
             self.setTitleTextAttributes([.foregroundColor: tintColor], for: .normal)
             self.setTitleTextAttributes([.foregroundColor: UIColor.white], for: .selected)
        }
        else
        {
            self.tintColor = tintColor
        }
    }
}
extension UIImage {
    convenience init(color: UIColor, size: CGSize) {
        UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(size, false, 1)
        color.set()
        let ctx = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()!
        ctx.fill(CGRect(origin: .zero, size: size))
        let image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()!
        UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

        self.init(data: image.pngData()!)!
    }
}

Answer 2

Swift version of @Ilahi Charfeddine answer:

if #available(iOS 13.0, *) {
   segmentedControl.setTitleTextAttributes([.foregroundColor: UIColor.white], for: .selected)
   segmentedControl.selectedSegmentTintColor = UIColor.blue
} else {
   segmentedControl.tintColor = UIColor.blue
}

Answer 3

if (@available(iOS 13.0, *)) {

    [self.segmentedControl setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName: [UIColor whiteColor], NSFontAttributeName: [UIFont systemFontOfSize:13]} forState:UIControlStateSelected];
    [self.segmentedControl setSelectedSegmentTintColor:[UIColor blueColor]];

} else {

[self.segmentedControl setTintColor:[UIColor blueColor]];}

Answer 4

If you want to set the background to clear you have to do this:

if #available(iOS 13.0, *) {
  let image = UIImage()
  let size = CGSize(width: 1, height: segmentedControl.intrinsicContentSize.height)
  UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(size, false, 0.0)
  image.draw(in: CGRect(origin: .zero, size: size))
  let scaledImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
  UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
  segmentedControl.setBackgroundImage(scaledImage, for: .normal, barMetrics: .default)
  segmentedControl.setDividerImage(scaledImage, forLeftSegmentState: .normal, rightSegmentState: .normal, barMetrics: .default)
}

Answer 5

XCODE 11.1 & iOS 13

Based on @Jigar Darji 's answer but a safer implementation.

We first create a failable convenience initialiser:

extension UIImage {

convenience init?(color: UIColor, size: CGSize) {
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(size, false, 1)
    color.set()
    guard let ctx = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext() else { return nil }
    ctx.fill(CGRect(origin: .zero, size: size))
    guard
        let image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext(),
        let imagePNGData = image.pngData()
        else { return nil }
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

    self.init(data: imagePNGData)
   }
}

Then we extend UISegmentedControl:

extension UISegmentedControl {

func fallBackToPreIOS13Layout(using tintColor: UIColor) {
    if #available(iOS 13, *) {
        let backGroundImage = UIImage(color: .clear, size: CGSize(width: 1, height: 32))
        let dividerImage = UIImage(color: tintColor, size: CGSize(width: 1, height: 32))

        setBackgroundImage(backGroundImage, for: .normal, barMetrics: .default)
        setBackgroundImage(dividerImage, for: .selected, barMetrics: .default)

        setDividerImage(dividerImage,
                        forLeftSegmentState: .normal,
                        rightSegmentState: .normal, barMetrics: .default)

        layer.borderWidth = 1
        layer.borderColor = tintColor.cgColor

        setTitleTextAttributes([.foregroundColor: tintColor], for: .normal)
        setTitleTextAttributes([.foregroundColor: UIColor.white], for: .selected)
    } else {
        self.tintColor = tintColor
    }
  }
}

Answer 6

I've tried the workaround and it works great for me. Here's the Objective-C version:

@interface UISegmentedControl (Common)
- (void)ensureiOS12Style;
@end

@implementation UISegmentedControl (Common)
- (void)ensureiOS12Style {
    // UISegmentedControl has changed in iOS 13 and setting the tint
    // color now has no effect.
    if (@available(iOS 13, *)) {
        UIColor *tintColor = [self tintColor];
        UIImage *tintColorImage = [self imageWithColor:tintColor];
        // Must set the background image for normal to something (even clear) else the rest won't work
        [self setBackgroundImage:[self imageWithColor:self.backgroundColor ? self.backgroundColor : [UIColor clearColor]] forState:UIControlStateNormal barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
        [self setBackgroundImage:tintColorImage forState:UIControlStateSelected barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
        [self setBackgroundImage:[self imageWithColor:[tintColor colorWithAlphaComponent:0.2]] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
        [self setBackgroundImage:tintColorImage forState:UIControlStateSelected|UIControlStateSelected barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
        [self setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName: tintColor, NSFontAttributeName: [UIFont systemFontOfSize:13]} forState:UIControlStateNormal];
        [self setDividerImage:tintColorImage forLeftSegmentState:UIControlStateNormal rightSegmentState:UIControlStateNormal barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
        self.layer.borderWidth = 1;
        self.layer.borderColor = [tintColor CGColor];
    }
}

- (UIImage *)imageWithColor: (UIColor *)color {
    CGRect rect = CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size);
    CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
    CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, [color CGColor]);
    CGContextFillRect(context, rect);
    UIImage *theImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
    return theImage;
}
@end