iphone - How to change tab bar item text color

Question

How can I change the color of "More.." text in tabbar to match with its icon color. (Right now Performance is selected in the tab bar)

I tried to set TitleTextAttributes.

[moreItem setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaLTStd-Roman" size:10.0f], NSFontAttributeName,  [UIColor yellowColor],NSForegroundColorAttributeName , nil]

But it the text color is always set to yellow. even when the item is selected. Like this

I am trying set to white when selected and when unselected it should match with icon color. Thanks.. Any suggestions will be really helpful.

Answer 1

The accepted answer's code not work for me.

Here is code, that works:

    [[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:@{ NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor yellowColor] }
                                             forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    [[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:@{ NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor whiteColor] }
                                             forState:UIControlStateSelected];