how to change backbutton color iOS7

Question

I've been developed an app for iOS7 which has this design

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As you can see there's a blue arrow for all my BackButton (using UINavigationController and segues), I want to make them red, this is my code:

[UIBarButtonItem   appearance]setTintColor:(UIColorFromRGB(toolbarTintColor))];
[[UIBarButtonItem  appearance]setTitleTextAttributes:textAtributesDictionaryNavBarButtons forState:UIControlStateNormal];

but results only applies to all other buttons, any help I'll appreciate

thanks in advance for the support

Simon Goldeen · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-15T19:47:07.090

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The tint color property of a navigation bar determines the color of the text of its bar button items in iOS 7. The code you are looking for is something like this:

[[UINavigationBar appearance] setTintColor:[UIColor redColor]];

and, of course, replacing [UIColor redColor] with whatever color you want.

edited Nov 15 '13 at 19:47

answered Oct 09 '13 at 18:30

Simon Goldeen

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the tintColor property does not have UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR so I think this solution may be unreliable. Enrico Susatyo's answer seems like the correct one. – David Pettigrew Mar 28 '14 at 00:18
Somehow this works in iOS 8 (8.1) for me but not iOS 7. Only the text color changes, not the < Used to work in iOS 7 before. Hmm.. – Daniel Feb 05 '15 at 11:30

score 12 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 27 '15 at 17:01

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Put this code in your App Delegate:

Objective-C

[self.window setTintColor:[UIColor redColor]];

Swift

self.window?.tintColor = UIColor.redColor()

edited Oct 27 '15 at 17:01

Adrian

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answered Oct 11 '13 at 04:29

yunhasnawa

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This is a better answer since it suggests to customize the navigation text in AppDelegate.m. – Hahnemann Dec 15 '13 at 00:28
But I don't want to change the text color of my Tab Bar – fujianjin6471 Apr 08 '16 at 14:01

score 10 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 21 '14 at 05:54

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If you don't want to change the tint colour in the whole app and just want to do it on one navigation bar, do this:

self.navigationController.navigationBar.tintColor = [UIColor redColor];

answered Jan 21 '14 at 05:54

Enrico Susatyo

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score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 18 '15 at 17:20

If you want the swift version.

UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()

Also, if you want to apply this style to all your navigation view controllers. Put that code in your application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method in your AppDelegate

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 14 '14 at 18:06

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Swift:

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.grayColor()

answered Nov 14 '14 at 18:06

Esqarrouth

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 10 '15 at 08:14

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If you're using storyboard, then you've to add a user defined attribute for keyPath 'tintColor' under the class inspector pane.
Because the static tintColor property was removed in latest version of Interface builder.

answered Aug 10 '15 at 08:14

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 08 '16 at 14:19

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You can set it in IB directly:

answered Apr 08 '16 at 14:19

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score -2 · Answer 8 · edited Nov 17 '15 at 07:47

-(void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
   //set back button color
    [[UIBarButtonItem appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UINavigationBar class], nil] setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIColor redColor], NSForegroundColorAttributeName,nil] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    //set back button arrow color
    [self.navigationController.navigationBar setTintColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
}

how to change backbutton color iOS7

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