UITabBarItem invisible in iOS 7 with UISplitViewController

Question

I have a little problem easily reproductible with Xcode 6.1.1 :

Create a new Tabbed application project
Set the deployment target to iOS 7
Go into the storyboard and drag and drop a UISplitViewController
Link it to the UITabBarController
Edit the new Tab Bar Item, set an image and set its name

Now run the project in the simulator (iPhone) for iOS 7 and iOS 8. The Tab bar item is invisible in iOS 7 whereas its visible in iOS 8...

This is on iOS 8 This is on iOS 7

Any thoughts to make it visible?

PS: I've already checked Issue with Split View Controller with UITabbarController in iOS7 and UISplitView with UITabbar but none is about the invisible item...

user3441734 user3441734 · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-12T12:39:48

UISplitViewController doesn't exist on iPhone ios7 ...

if you still would like to use it as root controller, check this http://op183.github.io/MasterDetailDemo/

override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
        let barItems: [UITabBarItem] = tabBar.items as [UITabBarItem]
        for bar in barItems {
            println(bar.selectedImage)
            println(bar.title)
        }
    }

and the result is ....

<UIImage: 0x7a742ca0>
Optional("First")
<UIImage: 0x7a744800>
Optional("Second")
nil
nil

as a workaround try set the right values there

if bar.title == nil {
                bar.title = "TITLE"
            }

works for me

1) it is hard to say, what is wrong with storyboard, but even if title and images are set to nil, the 'connection' still works

UITabBarItem invisible in iOS 7 with UISplitViewController

1 Answers