diff --git a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/tab-view/main-page.ts b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/tab-view/main-page.ts
index 69d4aa857..50f8dca5d 100644
--- a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/tab-view/main-page.ts
+++ b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/tab-view/main-page.ts
@@ -27,5 +27,6 @@ export function loadExamples() {
     examples.set("tab-view-tab-text-font-size", "tab-view/tab-view-tab-text-font-size");
     examples.set("tab-view-android-swipe", "tab-view/tab-view-android-swipe");
     examples.set("tab-view-icon-title-placement", "tab-view/icon-title-placement");
+    examples.set("tab-text-color", "tab-view/tab-text-color");
     return examples;
 }
diff --git a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/tab-view/tab-text-color.xml b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/tab-view/tab-text-color.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8f851e60d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/tab-view/tab-text-color.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<Page>
+  <TabView tabTextColor="red">
+    <TabView.items>
+
+      <TabViewItem title="Tab 1">
+        <TabViewItem.view>
+          <Label text="Label 1" />
+        </TabViewItem.view>
+      </TabViewItem>
+
+      <TabViewItem title="Tab 2">
+        <TabViewItem.view>
+          <Label text="Label 2" />
+        </TabViewItem.view>
+      </TabViewItem>
+
+      <TabViewItem title="Tab 3">
+        <TabViewItem.view>
+          <Label text="Label 3" />
+        </TabViewItem.view>
+      </TabViewItem>
+    </TabView.items>
+  </TabView>
+</Page>
diff --git a/tns-core-modules/ui/tab-view/tab-view.ios.ts b/tns-core-modules/ui/tab-view/tab-view.ios.ts
index 3201e9a2c..70f8c1f3d 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules/ui/tab-view/tab-view.ios.ts
+++ b/tns-core-modules/ui/tab-view/tab-view.ios.ts
@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ function getTitleAttributesForStates(tabView: TabView): TabStates {
     }
 
     const tabSelectedItemTextColor = tabView.style.selectedTabTextColor;
-    const selectedTextColor = tabItemTextColor instanceof Color ? tabSelectedItemTextColor.ios : null;
+    const selectedTextColor = tabSelectedItemTextColor instanceof Color ? tabSelectedItemTextColor.ios : null;
     result.selectedState = { [NSFontAttributeName]: font }
     if (selectedTextColor) {
         result.selectedState[UITextAttributeTextColor] = selectedTextColor