Moving UITabBarItem Image down?

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Try adjusting tabBarItem‘s imageInsets (for moving the icon image) and setting the controllers title to nil (so no title is displayed). Put something like this to -init or -viewDidLoad method in view controller:

Objective-C

self.tabBarItem.imageInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(6, 0, -6, 0);
self.title = nil;

Swift

self.tabBarItem.imageInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 6, left: 0, bottom: -6, right: 0)
self.title = nil

UITabBarItem is a subclass of UIBarItem which has UIEdgeInsets imageInsets property. Play a little with the insets until it looks good (depending on your tabbar icon images)

iPad specific adjustments

Tab Bar items on iPad are distributed horizontally (icon and label next to each other).

To adjust space between icon and label, adjust horizontal imageInsets instead of vertical ones.

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