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title: "Setting custom Image/Title on UITabBarItem  on iOS"  
description: "Setting custom Image/Title on UITabBarItem  on iOS"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2015-12-15  
updated: 2015-12-16  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/33741/setting-custom-image-title-on-uitabbaritem-on-ios  
category: "iphone"  
tags: ["iphone", "ios", "objective c"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Setting custom Image/Title on UITabBarItem  on iOS

I want to [add custom](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/34385/add-custom-css-in-razor-view) [title](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12860/how-to-get-financing-for-salvage-title-cars) on predefined **UITabBarItems**. Whenever I [select](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/160534/orderby-then-select-vs-select-then-orderby-performance) the particular [instance](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/155658/testing-connection-to-cloud-sql-instance-with-a-mysql-client-from-vm-instance) I like in [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), if I modify the title it gets preset back to a 'custom' identifier. Ideally I would like the book icon from the 'Bookmarks' identifier on 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?\
You can provide me the [documentation](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/30462/what-is-documentation) also which will points me on 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

In my according the only types of UITabBarItems are those supplied and described entirely by the OS, and those described entirely by the app, as I discovered. By far the simplest solution is to pull the icon out of somewhere else and use it like this:

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


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