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In the clocks application, the timer screen shows a picker (probably a UIPicker in UIDatePickerModeCountDownTimer mode) with some text in the selection bar ("hours" and "mins" in this case). (edit) Note that these labels are fixed : They don't move when the picker wheel is rolling. Is there a way to show such fixed labels in the selection bar of a standard UIPickerView component? I did not find any API that would help with that. A suggestion was to add a UILabel as a subview of the picker, but that didn't work. Answer I followed Ed Marty's advice (answer below), and it works! Not perfect but it should fool people. For reference, here's my implementation, feel free to make it better... - (void)viewDidLoad { // Add pickerView self.pickerView = [[UIPickerView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero]; [pickerView release]; CGSize pickerSize = [pickerView sizeThatFits:CGSizeZero]; CGRect screenRect = [[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame]; #define toolbarHeight 40.0 CGFloat pickerTop = screenRect.size.height - toolbarHeight - pickerSize.height; CGRect pickerRect = CGRectMake(0.0, pickerTop, pickerSize.width, pickerSize.height); pickerView.frame = pickerRect; // Add label on top of pickerView CGFloat top = pickerTop + 2; CGFloat height = pickerSize.height - 2; [self addPickerLabel:@"x" rightX:123.0 top:top height:height]; [self addPickerLabel:@"y" rightX:183.0 top:top height:height]; //... } - (void)addPickerLabel:(NSString *)labelString rightX:(CGFloat)rightX top:(CGFloat)top height:(CGFloat)height { #define PICKER_LABEL_FONT_SIZE 18 #define PICKER_LABEL_ALPHA 0.7 UIFont *font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:PICKER_LABEL_FONT_SIZE]; CGFloat x = rightX - [labelString sizeWithFont:font].width; // White label 1 pixel below, to simulate embossing.

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