UIButton IBAction button name

I wish to know the name of the button that was just tapped. I have this code so far:

- (IBAction)buttonClick:(id)sender{
    NSLog(@"%@",sender);
}

However, this just returns a lot of jargon. Is there a way to return the name of the button that was just tapped?

If you want to know the name just so you know what button has been clicked, I don't think you can get the name of the iVar, but there are other ways of doing this:

You can get the title of the button:

NSString *btnTitle = [sender currentTitle];

Alternatively - You can set a tag for the button in the Interface Builder view

NSInteger btnTag = [sender tag];

You could use the Objective-C runtime functions but this might be difficult.

What I recommend instead is setting the tag property for each button, and create an array with the names of each button, like this:

button1.tag = 0;
button2.tag = 1;
NSArray *buttonNames = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"button1", @"button2", nil];

In your method:

- (IBAction)buttonTap:(id)sender { // one cannot *click* on an iOS device
  NSLog(@"%@", [buttonNames objectAtIndex:[(UIButton *)sender tag]);
}

try

NSLog(@"%@",[sender title]);