setting self.title change the tabbaritem title, how can i prevent that?

Question

I'm confusing.

All I want to do is setting title "one" to the viewcontroller and title "two" to the tab bar item that show it.

What happen now is : I set "one" to the tabbaritem in Interface builder. When I set in the viewDidLoad self.title="two", the tab bar item text is changed also to "two"

How can I prevent that ?

Thanks.

Chek out [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1540718/self-title-sets-navigationcontroller-and-tabbaritems-title-why/1596277#1596277) in case it helps. — albertamg, Jul 31 '11 at 11:24

score 17 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 11 '14 at 17:29

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You can use self.navigationItem.title.

answered Dec 11 '14 at 17:29

TonyTony

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score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 31 '11 at 11:23

In a normal UIViewController, self.title refers to the same object as self.tabBarItem.title. You can't change them independently.

If you want to display a title somewhere other than in the UITabBarItem, you could add a UILabel to the view and set its text.

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 27 '15 at 10:03

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[[self.tabBarController.tabBar.items objectAtIndex:idx] setTitle:@"text"];

edited Nov 27 '15 at 10:03

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answered Nov 27 '15 at 10:00

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setting self.title change the tabbaritem title, how can i prevent that?

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