Customize the More UIBarButtonItem in UITabBar

Question

Since iOS 5 Apple provided an API to customise the UITabBarItems in the UITabBar object. I am refering specifically to the following selector:

Answer 1

The solution was silly.

I assumed the UITabBarItems in the moreNavigationController was readonly and it wasn't. So simply doing the following:

tabBarController.moreNavigationController.tabBarItem = [[UITabBarItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"More" image:[UIImage imageNamed:@"BarIcon-More.png"] tag:0];

And the same customization code as above works.