Why are all my UIAlertView labels/text bold by default in iOS 8

Question

I searched for this and the only solutions seem to be derive from the UIAlertViewDelegate. I don't want to do that just to eliminate bold text.

The code that I use to pop my alert view is the following:

NSString* errPrompt = @"some text here, anything that will not show bold :)";
UIAlertView* alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:title
                                                message:errPrompt
                                                delegate:nil
                                       cancelButtonTitle:[self getUiText:"OK"]
                                       otherButtonTitles:nil];
[alert show];

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 07 '14 at 17:10

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This is a bug in iOS and affects all alerts which do not have a title set.

Interestingly most standard iOS alerts (like in App Store) are not affected.

answered Oct 07 '14 at 17:10

fluidsonic

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 18 '15 at 08:15

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This works for me on iOS 8. Just empty string in the title without space inside @"".

  [[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@""
     message:@"My message" 
     delegate:nil
     cancelButtonTitle:@"OK"
     otherButtonTitles:nil] show];

answered Aug 18 '15 at 08:15

Yaroslav Babenko

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 11 '21 at 23:40

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This happens when you do not set Alert title. (Weird, I know)

Set Alert's title as. empty if you. do not want to add any title

UIAlertController(title: "", message: "The alert message", preferredStyle: .alert)

answered Mar 11 '21 at 23:40

matiasdim

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Why are all my UIAlertView labels/text bold by default in iOS 8

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