Legacy customizations

Overview

In iOS 13 and later, customize your toolbar using the standardAppearance and compactAppearance properties. You may continue to use these legacy accessors to customize your toolbar’s appearance directly, but you must update the appearance for different bar configurations yourself.

Topics

Setting the bar’s style

• barStyle
• UIBarStyle

Configuring bar button items

• tintColor

Changing the background

• barTintColor
• backgroundImage(forToolbarPosition:barMetrics:)
• setBackgroundImage(_:forToolbarPosition:barMetrics:)

Adding a shadow

• shadowImage(forToolbarPosition:)
• setShadowImage(_:forToolbarPosition:)

See Also

Customizing appearance

• standardAppearance
• compactAppearance
• scrollEdgeAppearance
• compactScrollEdgeAppearance
• isTranslucent