Change Titles of Default Apple UITabBarItems

Question

Hello I am making a sports app and I have three UITabBarItems in a tab bar: Featured, My Teams and Results. I like the default icons for each as the default featured, most viewed and history respectively.

What it looks like in the .xib:

However when I try to change the titles in the UIViewController they do not change.

UIViewController code (I do not need to change the title of featured):

[_teamsItem setTitle:@"Teams"];
[_resultsItem setTitle:@"Results"];

How can I change the titles, or how can I use the icons from those default UITabBarItems to create my own? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you use system icons, they come with the titles. You can't use just the icons (without titles), unless you use a tool like iOS Artwork Extractor to actually extract the images from iOS and add them to your project.