navigation title on previous screen disappear when back button pressed

Question

i have a problem with navigation bar title. i have 2 screen, when i click back button on screen 2 it will back to screen 1 but the title of screen 1 is disappear. Here is my snippet code

screen1 .m

    - (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view.

    self.title = @"title 1";
....

screen 2 .m

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view.

    self.title = self.stringTitle;

    // change the back button and add an event handler
    self.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = YES;
    //set custom image to button if needed
    UIImage *backButtonImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"btn_back.png"];
    UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
    [button setImage:backButtonImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    button.frame = CGRectMake(-12, 2, backButtonImage.size.width, backButtonImage.size.height);
    [button addTarget:self action:@selector(backAction) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

    UIView *backButtonView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, backButtonImage.size.width-15, backButtonImage.size.height)];
    [backButtonView addSubview:button];

    UIBarButtonItem *customBarItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:backButtonView];
    self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = customBarItem;

    self.navigationController.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = @{NSForegroundColorAttributeName: [UIColor whiteColor]};
....
}

- (void) backAction
{
    [self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}

i've tried several tricks to make title of screen 1 appears with the following tricks:

set title on viewwillappear method

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated{self.title = @"tes";}

set title on viewdidappear method

 - (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated{
 self.navigationController.navigationBar.topItem.title = @"YourTitle";
  self.title = @"tes";
  }

but the title is still disappears. please help

here is the way how i moving to next screen

- (IBAction)btGenerateTokenAction:(id)sender {
    SofttokenResultController *controller = [[SofttokenResultController alloc] initWithNibName:@"SofttokenResultController" bundle:nil];

    controller.navigationController.navigationBar.backItem.title = @"Kembali";
    [ViewLoadingUtil animateToNextView:controller from:self :@""];
}

+ (void) animateToNextView:(UIViewController *)controller from:(UIViewController *)fromController :(NSString *)navTitle{

    NSLog(@"animateToNextView called");

    [fromController.navigationController pushViewController:controller animated:YES];
}

first time is it visible(before going to VC2). And y u add back button.if u using navigationBar ,default back Button will be der — Suhail kalathil, Jul 01 '14 at 09:11
did you add any view to your navigation controller title view — Retro, Jul 01 '14 at 09:13
@ChinttuRoxeNRamani i've tried adding self.navigationItem.title on viewDidLoad method but still disappear — Herahadi, Jul 02 '14 at 02:56
@Fogmeister i'm moving to next screen using this method edit: adding method how i move to next screen on first thread — Herahadi, Jul 02 '14 at 02:58
remove this line `self.navigationController.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = @{NSForegroundColorAttributeName: [UIColor whiteColor]};` and see if the it works correctly (May not be desirable, but yet check it ou). — Dunes Buggy, Jul 02 '14 at 03:52
Test without hiding the back button and comment all codes related to back button and title view attributes. — Suhail kalathil, Jul 02 '14 at 04:50

score 15 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 16 '18 at 21:51

15

This solved my problem:

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
        super.viewWillAppear(animated: animated)
        self.navigationItem.title="Title text"
}

edited Mar 16 '18 at 21:51

zzzkk

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answered Sep 13 '14 at 07:35

ozo

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From the docs... `If you override this method, you must call super in your implementation.` – Fogmeister Oct 20 '16 at 10:44
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This didnt solve my problem. I had to add the Dispatch Queue. So if anybody needs add the code DispatchQueue.main.async { self.tabBarController?.navigationItem.title = "Your screen title" } – Nathan Barreto Mar 21 '18 at 18:37

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 12 '17 at 06:35

In my case, it was the backItem?.title that was the problem. In both my view controller and within a custom subclass of UINavigationController I was setting it to an empty string:

func navigationController(_ navigationController: UINavigationController, willShow viewController: UIViewController, animated: Bool) {
    ...
    navigationController.navigationBar.backItem?.title = ""
}

My guess would be that when using popViewController(animated:) the title is taken from backItem?.title and set into the main title attribute.

This is old, but the bug persists because I just had to face it to... — Raphael Ayres, Aug 27 '20 at 20:57

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 20 '16 at 10:40

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In viewWillAppear implement this:

self.navigationItem.title="Title text";

edited Oct 20 '16 at 10:40

BytesGuy

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answered Oct 20 '16 at 09:49

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 26 '21 at 13:01

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it usually happen when you set backItem?.title = "" because the title of the back controller is taken from this property I face this issue from months and solved it just by commenting this line

answered May 26 '21 at 13:01

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raed · Answer 5 · 2017-04-26T07:25:18.120

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Objective c solution:

- (void) viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewWillAppear: animated];
    self.navigationItem.title = @"Title text";
}

edited Apr 26 '17 at 07:25

answered May 12 '16 at 10:53

raed

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From the docs... `If you override this method, you must call super in your implementation.` – Fogmeister Oct 20 '16 at 10:44
@Fogmeister Done :) – raed Oct 27 '16 at 07:51
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@raed should be `[super viewWillAppear: animated];` – wes Apr 25 '17 at 16:39

score -1 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 10 '17 at 09:41

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Working for me solution. You can try this one:

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)

    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.topItem?.title = ""
    self.navigationItem.title = "Title"
}

answered Mar 10 '17 at 09:41

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score -2 · Answer 7 · edited Mar 23 '16 at 13:42

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I come from the Swift world. However I tried many solutions. These were caused by the animation. If you change the Bool to false, it will solve your problem. Finally you can put your code in the viewWillAppear function.

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    if animated {
        //...
    }
}

edited Mar 23 '16 at 13:42

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answered Mar 23 '16 at 13:02

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From the docs... `If you override this method, you must call super in your implementation.` – Fogmeister Oct 20 '16 at 10:44

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