How can I manually set the unselected tab bar item text color with Liquid Glass?

With the new Liquid Glass tab bar, I’m able to customize the color of the textfor the selected tab.

However, the unselected tab bar items automatically use the system’s vibrancy effect, and their text color appears to be determined by the Liquid Glass appearance.

I would like to manually specify the color of the unselected tab bar item text/icons as well, instead of having the system apply vibrancy.

For example, I would like to have:

Selected tab → custom color (e.g. blue) Unselected tabs → another custom color (e.g. gray) No automatic vibrancy/color transformation applied to the unselected items

Is there a supported API or configuration in UIKit to control the foreground/text/icon color of unselected UITabBarItems when using the Liquid Glass tab bar?

I’ve tried using UITabBarAppearance / UITabBarItemAppearance, but the unselected item's color still appears to be affected by the Liquid Glass/vibrancy behavior.

Is there a recommended way to achieve this while retaining the Liquid Glass tab bar?

How can I manually set the unselected tab bar item text color with Liquid Glass?
 
 
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