Question: I have been looking around online for an answer to this question for several days now with no success. Essentially what I want to do is change the highlight colour of the icons in my `UITabBar`. By default they are highlighted in blue when selected, however I have seen several apps that have managed to change this (eg. McDonalds app, shown below).

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cG6En.jpg)

What I would like to be able to do is set the highlight colour to red, if this is even possible please can someone help me?

**NOTE:** If it makes things any easier I'm targeting this app at users of `iOS5`+.

Answer: 
In swift put this: 

```
 UITabBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.redColor()

```

inside of the app delegate's didFinishLaunching method... Just keeping up with the times.
Try this :

```
[[[UITabBarItem alloc] init] setFinishedSelectedImage:(UIImage *)myImageRed.png withFinishedUnselectedImage:myImage.png];

```