---
title: UITabBarAppearance
framework: uikit
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: uikit/uitabbarappearance
---

# UITabBarAppearance

An object for customizing the appearance of a tab bar.

## Declaration

```swift
@MainActor class UITabBarAppearance
```

## Overview

Overview After creating a UITabBarAppearance object, use the methods and properties of this class to specify the appearance of items in the tab bar. Use the inherited properties from UIBarAppearance to configure the background and shadow attributes of the tab bar itself.

## Topics

### Configuring stacked item appearances

- [stackedLayoutAppearance](uikit/uitabbarappearance/stackedlayoutappearance.md)
- [stackedItemPositioning](uikit/uitabbarappearance/stackeditempositioning.md)
- [stackedItemSpacing](uikit/uitabbarappearance/stackeditemspacing.md)
- [stackedItemWidth](uikit/uitabbarappearance/stackeditemwidth.md)

### Configuring inline item appearances

- [inlineLayoutAppearance](uikit/uitabbarappearance/inlinelayoutappearance.md)
- [compactInlineLayoutAppearance](uikit/uitabbarappearance/compactinlinelayoutappearance.md)

### Specifying the selection appearance

- [selectionIndicatorTintColor](uikit/uitabbarappearance/selectionindicatortintcolor.md)
- [selectionIndicatorImage](uikit/uitabbarappearance/selectionindicatorimage.md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [UIBarAppearance](uikit/uibarappearance.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSCoding](foundation/nscoding.md)
- [NSCopying](foundation/nscopying.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)
- [NSSecureCoding](foundation/nssecurecoding.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)

## See Also

### Tab bar appearance

- [UITabBarItemAppearance](uikit/uitabbaritemappearance.md)
- [UITabBarItemStateAppearance](uikit/uitabbaritemstateappearance.md)