How to disable UIButton highlight on click? [duplicate]

You could also make the UIButton type : custom from StoryBoard

Custom button

This should strip down any system behavior for you. (I think)

This is a solution for buttons that have images. In the storyboard, there is a property called HighlightedAdjustsImage which is On by default. Disable that and your button image will not show any highlighted properties.

Swift 4 with XCode 9

Just uncheck "Highlighted Adjust Image" and if you want to remove disabled background uncheck "Disabled Adjust Image" too.

First ensure your button type is "Custom"

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UIButton will highlighted on click, so check button setting Change the title color in highlight state config to same as default state Or you can set:

[button setTitleColor:[UIColor blackColor] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];

If you want to control Highlighted by code, you can disable normal highlighted by subclass Button and disable in touchesBegin:

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
 if (self.state == UIControlStateHighlighted) {
 [self setHighlighted:NO];
 }
}

old outdated answers, and old question, but the newest and easiest way is:

 overlayButton.adjustsImageWhenHighlighted = false

None of the solutions I found online worked for me (including these ones listed here), so I ended up doing this in my custom UIButton subclass:

// swift:
override var isHighlighted: Bool {
 didSet { if isHighlighted { isHighlighted = false } }
}

I also have the buttonType set to .custom, but it probably makes no difference here.

And now: no more weird highlighting or colour animations!

My 2 cents ;) Swift 3 ready

class CustomButton: UIButton {
 override var isHighlighted: Bool {
 didSet {
 if (isHighlighted) {
 super.isHighlighted = false
 }
 }
 }
}

Situation and History

I had set images for UIControlState.normal and UIControlState.selected, so setting UIButton.isSelected = true shows selected image, else the normal image.

The issue we discovered was when UIButton.isSelected = true, and during highlight/focus (by tap hold the button and discard tap by swiping away) button shows image for UIControlState.normal, that looked pretty ugly to my boss :D

I tried several solutions, such as UIButton(type: UIButtonType.custom) and UIButton.adjustsImageWhenHighlighted = false, none helped :(

You can do it by creating extension in Swift 4.2

extension UIButton {
open override var isHighlighted: Bool {
 didSet {
 super.isHighlighted = false
 }
}}

UIButton.Configuration API (iOS 15+)

class MyButton : UIButton {
 required init?(coder: NSCoder) {
 super.init(coder: coder)
 
 var configuration = self.configuration!
 configuration.background.backgroundColorTransformer = UIConfigurationColorTransformer { color in
 return configuration.baseBackgroundColor ?? .clear
 }
 configuration.titleTextAttributesTransformer = UIConfigurationTextAttributesTransformer { container in
 container.merging(AttributeContainer([
 .foregroundColor: configuration.baseForegroundColor ?? .white
 ]))
 }
 self.configuration = configuration
 }
}

I had this issue in a tableview and what resolved it for me was in cellForRowAt indexPath add the following:

For Swift 3 and above:

cell.selectionStyle = .none

Now when I click on the cell I no longer get a grey overlay on my cell.

• ios
• objective-c
• uibutton