Use iOS 6 Style Segmented Control in iOS 7?

Question

Is it possible to have a segmented control on an iOS 7 device show up as the iOS 6 version of the control?

We really aren't ready for an interface redesign and the new flat control doesn't jive with the rest of our UI. It would definitely be best to keep the iOS 6 style for now, if possible.

To clarify, I am compiling using the iOS 6.1 Base SDK. I am aware that this is the "obvious" answer to my question, but it does not work. Most other UI elements will show up with iOS 6 styling by doing this, but like the UIAlertView and UIActionSheet, the UISegmentedControl does not. However, unlike the UIAlertView and UIActionSheet, UISegmentedControls do not feel like a "system" item; they should be able to display in iOS 6 mode.

Edit: I thought it would be helpful if I finally included a picture with this (probably should have done this from the start). However, the answer I provided did fix the issue. Also, in retrospect, it looks like this might be the iOS 6 style after all, it's just displaying so wrong that it appears like iOS 7 style.

Answer 1

In my app, I have set the Segmented control to "Bar" style. It renders in ios6 style on my ios7 iphone5 (whoa, 5,6,7). However, the text inside the segments are cut and have the three dots "..." added, no matter how wide the view is. So the ios6 segmented control rendering in ios7 seems really buggy

Answer 2

If you save the iPhoneOS6.1.sdk file from the previous version of XCode and add it to Xcode 5 in the same path you can then build an app against the 6.1 SDK so that when it runs on 7 everything is like 6. Linking against iOS7 SDK tells iOS to make everything look like iOS7 if possible. Essentially then you have an iOS6 app but building it with XCode 5.

Answer 3

Either you could:

• Not update your app at all for iOS7 until you're ready to make some UI changes. Apps compiled against the iOS6 SDK will run in iOS6 Compatibility mode on iOS7 and will look exactly the same as they did in iOS6.
• Apply custom background, separator, etc images to your segmented controls that mimic the look they had in iOS6.