UIBarButtonItem is blue but should be gray

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I am trying to add some buttons to my UINavigationBar. It seems I can't just drag and drop an item into the bar, is this correct? So I a using this code below but for some reason the cog icon I am using is appearing as blue but it's actually a gray colour. How can I use the original image colour? Any help would be appreciated!

self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"cog"] style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:nil action:nil];

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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You need to explicitly specify rendering mode when creating image, as suggested in this answer:

UIImage *image = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"cog"] imageWithRenderingMode: UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithImage:image style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:nil action:nil];

edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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answered Feb 19 '15 at 19:28

Maxim Pavlov

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 19 '15 at 19:07

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Change the tint color of your navigation bar or the UIBarButtonItem to achieve the desired result.

If you need to change the tint color in the whole app, update the [UINavigationBar appearance] in your AppDelegate.m

answered Feb 19 '15 at 19:07

Vlad Fedoseev

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UIBarButtonItem is blue but should be gray

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