show another storyboard as the content of 1st tab of TabBarController

Question

I have a tab bar controller in storyboard like below:

I have anther storyboard which I would like to use as the content of 1st tab. Let's call it Content.storyboard

What I want to achieve is:

I would like the content of the 1st tab of Tab Bar Controller to be the Content.storyboard.

What I tried is:

I removed the default 1st view controller from Tab Bar Controller storyboard and added a storyboard reference connecting from Tab Bar Controller to Content.storyboard, like below:

The problem is , as you see above, I lost the ability to edit the Tab Item.

So, what is the correct way to achieve what I want? (That's showing a view from another storyboard as content of a tab of TabBarController)

It is another Storyboard file, I don't show in my question because it doesn't matter how it looks like, it is just a storyboard file which I want to show as the content of the first tab. — Leem.fin, Sep 07 '17 at 12:32
ok double click on storyboard reference it will open your storyboard in navigation controller you have to add manually tabBar item — Nishant Bhindi, Sep 07 '17 at 12:37
i mean open your Content.storyboard and add manually that tabbar Item — Nishant Bhindi, Sep 07 '17 at 12:39
without navigationController you can't navigate to another view controller means tabBar1VC -> childCV or tabBar2CV -> childVC — Nishant Bhindi, Sep 07 '17 at 13:11
Are you asking how to set the Tab Label and Icon? If so, can't you simply select the Item in the Document Outline and then edit the properties, like this: https://imgur.com/MIpcoY3 ? — DonMag, Sep 07 '17 at 13:15

Ben Scheirman · Answer 1 · 2017-09-07T13:11:20.487

I ran into an issue similar to this recently. I ended up moving the navigation controller out of the separate storyboard and into the main storyboard and configured the tab bar items there.

EDIT

After some further testing, it looks like the storyboard reference node gets a fake tab bar item. You can't delete it or modify it.

To provide the tab bar item for the other view controller, go into that storyboard and set the view controllers simulated metrics to Translucent tab bar: