Question

I have a UIButton, and I’d like to update its title, but I’d rather not have to always do it for each and every state like the following:

[myButton setTitle:@"Play" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[myButton setTitle:@"Play" forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];
[myButton setTitle:@"Play" forState:UIControlStateSelected];

Is there a better way?

Answer 1

According to the documentation you should only need to call:

In Objective-C:

[myButton setTitle:@"Play" forState:UIControlStateNormal];

In Swift:

myButton.setTitle("Play", for: .normal)

The UIButton docs explain why:

In general, if a property is not specified for a state, the default is to use the UIControlStateNormal value. If the value for UIControlStateNormal is not set, then the property defaults to a system value. Therefore, at a minimum, you should set the value for the normal state.

Namely, that if you only set the normal value the other states will refer to it when being set.