How to disable UIButton highlight on click?

Question

How to disable button highlight effect on click? Have custom button with white bg color and DarkGray text color. The problem is the text becomes white on button click. Already tried but none of them worked:

a. Did uncheck "Highlighted Ajusts Image" in interface builder.

b. Tried setting highlighted = NO in button pressed method:

((UIButton *)sender).highlighted = NO

c. Tried setting the same title for highlihted state:

[button setTitle:[button titleForState:UIControlStateNormal] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];

Any suggestions?

when you say highlight effect, you mean that the text changes its colour? — Vame, Jul 08 '13 at 13:58

score 47 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 22 '14 at 06:16

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You could also make the UIButton type : custom from StoryBoard

Custom button

This should strip down any system behavior for you. (I think)

answered Mar 22 '14 at 06:16

Paweł Brewczynski

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After quite some searching I came upon your answer. Adds an important aspect which solved my problem: The Type=System behavior will add a fade effect to the highlighted background image and text. Switching to Type=Custom will disable this effect so that exactly the colors specified will be displayed. Thanks! – Christian Aug 08 '14 at 13:24
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this does not when using images – anders Aug 18 '14 at 16:14
This is the answer – visc Mar 29 '19 at 15:12

score 25 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 11 '15 at 10:14

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This is a solution for buttons that have images. In the storyboard, there is a property called HighlightedAdjustsImage which is On by default. Disable that and your button image will not show any highlighted properties.

answered Jun 11 '15 at 10:14

Rajeev Bhatia

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score 22 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 18 '18 at 12:13

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Swift 4 with XCode 9

Just uncheck "Highlighted Adjust Image" and if you want to remove disabled background uncheck "Disabled Adjust Image" too.

First ensure your button type is "Custom"

answered Jan 18 '18 at 12:13

ibrahimyilmaz

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LE SANG · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-08T14:07:25.250

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UIButton will highlighted on click, so check button setting Change the title color in highlight state config to same as default state Or you can set:

[button setTitleColor:[UIColor blackColor] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];

If you want to control Highlighted by code, you can disable normal highlighted by subclass Button and disable in touchesBegin:

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
    if (self.state == UIControlStateHighlighted) {
        [self setHighlighted:NO];
    }
}

edited Jul 08 '13 at 14:07

answered Jul 08 '13 at 13:55

LE SANG

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2259905/how-to-disable-the-highlight-control-state-of-a-uibutton – Reza Dehnavi Nov 19 '19 at 00:24

score 12 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 05 '17 at 17:51

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old outdated answers, and old question, but the newest and easiest way is:

    overlayButton.adjustsImageWhenHighlighted = false

answered Apr 05 '17 at 17:51

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This should be marked as the correct answer, worked perfectly. – 10623169 Dec 02 '19 at 15:38

ephemer · Answer 6 · 2017-11-28T17:27:32.210

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None of the solutions I found online worked for me (including these ones listed here), so I ended up doing this in my custom UIButton subclass:

// swift:

override var isHighlighted: Bool {
    didSet { if isHighlighted { isHighlighted = false } }
}

I also have the buttonType set to .custom, but it probably makes no difference here.

And now: no more weird highlighting or colour animations!

edited Nov 28 '17 at 17:27

answered May 13 '15 at 16:40

ephemer

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AamirR · Answer 7 · 2017-07-22T19:05:59.220

My 2 cents ;) Swift 3 ready

class CustomButton: UIButton {

    override var isHighlighted: Bool {
        didSet {
            if (isHighlighted) {
                super.isHighlighted = false
            }
        }
    }

}

Situation and History

I had set images for UIControlState.normal and UIControlState.selected, so setting UIButton.isSelected = true shows selected image, else the normal image.

The issue we discovered was when UIButton.isSelected = true, and during highlight/focus (by tap hold the button and discard tap by swiping away) button shows image for UIControlState.normal, that looked pretty ugly to my boss :D

I tried several solutions, such as UIButton(type: UIButtonType.custom) and UIButton.adjustsImageWhenHighlighted = false, none helped :(

score 3 · Answer 8 · answered Jan 24 '19 at 10:19

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You can do it by creating extension in Swift 4.2

extension UIButton {
open override var isHighlighted: Bool {
    didSet {
        super.isHighlighted = false
    }
}}

answered Jan 24 '19 at 10:19

iOS Lifee

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