How to set the title of UIToolBar?

Question

How can I set the title of UIToolBar such that it looks the same as the title in UINavigationBar?

I tried to use a button with plain style, it looks ok, but it will be

Answer 1

Swift 5 version of Rayfleck's great answer:

let titleButton = UIBarButtonItem(title: "My Title", style: .plain, target: nil, action: nil)
titleButton.isEnabled = false
titleButton.setTitleTextAttributes([.foregroundColor : UIColor.black], for: .disabled)

Add this button to the toolbar as normal.

Answer 2

This solves the highlighting problem, disabled problem, and touch problem.

Toolbar and titleButton were both created in IB. The view title is covered by the toolbar. So put the title in a toolbar.

self.titleButton.title = @"Order";  // myInterestingTitle

It looks like this:

Disable to prevent any highlighting, and to stop it from responding to touches.

self.titleButton.enabled=NO;

Then it looks like this:

It will look disabled, so set the color for disabled to white, which has an implicit alpha=1.0. This effectively overrides the 'disabled' look.

[self.titleButton setTitleTextAttributes:
        [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:[UIColor whiteColor]
                                    forKey:UITextAttributeTextColor]
                                forState:UIControlStateDisabled ];

Here's what you get: