How to Change the Highlighted Color of a Uibutton

How to change the highlighted color of a UIButton?]

Try to Override the UIButton with the following Method.. and just change the backgroud color of button when its in highlighted state.

- (void)setHighlighted:(BOOL)highlighted {
    [super setHighlighted:highlighted];

    if (highlighted) {
        self.backgroundColor = [UIColor Your Customcolor];
    }
    else{
        self.backgroundColor = [UIColor Your DefaultColor];
    }   

}

Try it..hope it helps

UIButton background color for highlighted/selected state issue

I found the issue, UIButton was set to System.I simply changed it to Custom, it started working as expected.

How to change the background color of a UIButton while it's highlighted?

You can override UIButton's setHighlighted method.

Objective-C

- (void)setHighlighted:(BOOL)highlighted {
    [super setHighlighted:highlighted];

    if (highlighted) {
        self.backgroundColor = UIColorFromRGB(0x387038);
    } else {
        self.backgroundColor = UIColorFromRGB(0x5bb75b);
    }
}

Swift 3.0 and Swift 4.1

override open var isHighlighted: Bool {
    didSet {
        backgroundColor = isHighlighted ? UIColor.black : UIColor.white
    }
}

UIButton highlight color with UIButton.ConfigurationUpdateHandler in iOS 15

I have just found the solution, in case someone else has this issue:

Instead of button.configuration?.baseBackgroundColor I had to use button.configuration?.background.backgroundColor and the white overlay is gone.

UIButton title color change on highlight - How to turn it off?

you can use

[UIButton setTitleColor:forState:]

for all the states , then title color will remain same for all states.

[button setTitleColor:[UIColor redColor] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];
[button setTitleColor:[UIColor redColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[button setTitleColor:[UIColor redColor] forState:UIControlStateSelected];

Note:To avoide type or paste above code three times you can use following code suggested by Will,

[button setTitleColor:[UIColor redColor] forState:(UIControlStateHighlighted | UIControlStateNormal | UIControlStateSelected)];

ObjectiveC - UIButton remains highlighted/selected and background color and font color changes when highlighted/selected

I was able to achieve the function you are working on and below is how i did it.

I created the design via storyboard and connected all the 9 button's actions methods to a single Selector method, inside the action method with the help sender parameter we can get the selected buttons reference and use it.

- (IBAction)btnPressed:(UIButton*)sender {

/* Below for loop works as a reset for setting the default colour of button and to not select the same one twice*/
for (UIButton* button in buttons) {
    [button setSelected:NO];
    [button setBackgroundColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
    [button setUserInteractionEnabled:true];
// [button setTitleColor:[UIColor blackColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    [button setTitleColor:[UIColor blackColor] forState:UIControlStateSelected];
}

NSInteger tag = sender.tag;        // Here we get the sender tag, which we can use for our needs. Also we can directly use the sender and get the title or whatsoever needed.

/*Now below line works as a toggle for the button where multiple buttons can't be selected at the same time.*/
sender.selected = ! sender.selected;      

if(sender.selected)
{
/* Here we set the color for the button and handle the selected function*/
    [sender setSelected:YES];
    [sender setUserInteractionEnabled:false];
    [sender setBackgroundColor:[UIColor magentaColor]];
}
}

You can also add custom layer for the button by using the "sender.Layer" property.

The Whole code is added below,

All the button's action needs to be connected to a single selector method,
- (IBAction)btnPressed:(UIButton*)sender;

#import "ViewController.h"

@interface ViewController ()
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIView *mainViewOL;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIButton *btn1;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIButton *btn2;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIButton *btn3;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIButton *btn4;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIButton *btn5;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIButton *btn6;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIButton *btn7;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIButton *btn8;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIButton *btn9;

@end

@implementation ViewController

NSArray* buttons;

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];

    buttons = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:_btn1, _btn2, _btn3,_btn4,_btn5,_btn6,_btn7,_btn8,_btn9,nil];

    self.mainViewOL.layer.shadowRadius  = 5;
    self.mainViewOL.layer.shadowColor   = [UIColor colorWithRed:211.f/255.f green:211.f/255.f blue:211.f/255.f alpha:1.f].CGColor;
    self.mainViewOL.layer.shadowOffset  = CGSizeMake(0.0f, 0.0f);
    self.mainViewOL.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.9f;
    self.mainViewOL.layer.masksToBounds = NO;

    /* I Have added the 9 button's in an array and used it to reduce the lines of code and for easy understanding as well*/
    for (UIButton* button in buttons) {
        button.layer.borderColor = [UIColor lightGrayColor].CGColor;
        button.layer.borderWidth =1.0f;
    }
}

- (IBAction)btnPressed:(UIButton*)sender {
    for (UIButton* button in buttons) {
        [button setSelected:NO];
        [button setBackgroundColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
        [button setUserInteractionEnabled:true];
     // [button setTitleColor:[UIColor blackColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];        //Based on your needs and colour variant you cant add properties to the button for different control states.
        [button setTitleColor:[UIColor blackColor] forState:UIControlStateSelected];
    }

    NSInteger tag = sender.tag;

    sender.selected = ! sender.selected;

    if(sender.selected)
    {
        [sender setSelected:YES];
        [sender setUserInteractionEnabled:false];
        [sender setBackgroundColor:[UIColor purpleColor]];
        sender.backgroundColor = [UIColor magentaColor];
    }
}

@end

And the Final Result

Ignore the delay in button selection, it is caused by the video to gif conversion.

Hope This helps.

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