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title: "Custom UITabBarItem ImageTitle on iPhone"  
description: "Custom UITabBarItem ImageTitle on iPhone"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2015-09-28  
updated: 2015-09-29  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/33475/custom-uitabbaritem-imagetitle-on-iphone  
category: "iphone"  
tags: ["iphone", "ios", "objective c"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Custom UITabBarItem ImageTitle on iPhone

I have created a UITabBarItems and now I want to add a [custom](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/12298/use-custom-writing-services-to-get-through-the-finals) [title](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12860/how-to-get-financing-for-salvage-title-cars) on it. I like the [Interface](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12101/interfaces-in-java-extending-interfaces) [Builder](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12472/mgs-front-end-builder-for-magento-2-best-selling-product-on-magento-marketplace) whenever I [select](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/160534/orderby-then-select-vs-select-then-orderby-performance) the particular instance. If I modify the the title it gets preset back to a 'custom' identifier. Ideally I'd like the book icon from the 'Bookmarks' identifier with my own custom title.

Is this level of customization currently supported by the SDK? Am I going to have to ultimately [screen](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/33644/loading-screen-during-ajax-call) scrape the image and apply it as a custom image?

Thanks for any [insight](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/157223/5-inbound-project-management-insights-every-client-needs-to-know) or [documentation](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/30462/what-is-documentation) which points me in the [right direction](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1002/daily-30-minutes-in-the-right-direction-can-change-the-entire-day-s-mood).

## Replies

### Reply by Tarun Kumar

Unfortunately, the only types of UITabBarItems are those supplied and described entirely by the OS (ie, it assigns them icons and titles), and those described entirely by the app, as you've discovered. By far the simplest solution is to pull the icon out of somewhere else and use it with

```
-initWithTitle:image:tag
```


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