iOS 8: UINavigationController hide back button

Question

After I run my application in iOS 8 (XCode 6.0.1, iPhone 6), the back button does not hide.

My code:

- (void)removeCategoriesButton
{
    if (UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPhone) {
        [_navigationController.topViewController.navigationItem setHidesBackButton:YES];
        [_navigationController.topViewController.navigationItem setLeftBarButtonItem:nil];
    } else {
        UIViewController *controller = _app.window.rootViewController;

        if ([controller isKindOfClass:[UINavigationController class]]) {
            UINavigationController *nav = (UINavigationController *)controller;
            [nav.topViewController.navigationItem setHidesBackButton:YES];
            [nav.topViewController.navigationItem setLeftBarButtonItem:nil];
        }
    }
}

But the back button does not hide (see screenshot):

Simulator screen

UPD:

I run application in another simulators, and i see this "bug" only on iOS 8.

In iPad all OK. Back button success hide. Can this bug in iOS? — ZhukV, Sep 23 '14 at 11:53
Also having this issue, did you find a solution? For me the back button doesn't function either, unless I remove setHidesBackButton:YES — Glen Van Der Poel, Oct 01 '14 at 07:02
please check this out self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = nil http://stackoverflow.com/a/21829432/2584566 — Yuttanant Suwansiri, Oct 05 '15 at 04:16

score 45 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 07 '15 at 18:19

45

This worked for me.

-(void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {

    [super viewWillAppear:animated];

    [self.navigationItem setHidesBackButton:YES];
    [self.navigationItem setTitle:@"Home"];
}

edited Dec 07 '15 at 18:19

Martin Herman

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answered Oct 14 '14 at 04:05

scrainie

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this works but it momentarily shows the back button before hiding it – ken Nov 11 '14 at 03:44
Yeah - I did notice that. I've started writing in Swift now and it appears to work in the viewDidLoad without any problem. – scrainie Nov 12 '14 at 04:44
hmm.. strange, I am using swift as well and still having issues with doing it in viewDidLoad – ken Nov 12 '14 at 07:21
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swift code = self.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = true – scrainie Nov 13 '14 at 07:51

score 15 · Answer 2 · answered May 26 '15 at 01:55

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I tried many of the answers but the only one that worked for me was:

    override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    let backButton = UIBarButtonItem(title: "", style: UIBarButtonItemStyle.Plain, target: navigationController, action: nil)
    navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = backButton
}

answered May 26 '15 at 01:55

eric f.

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This works. Previously I'd tried `[self.navigationItem setHidesBackButton:YES];` but the back button text still remained. – nidheeshdas Aug 07 '15 at 11:15

score 6 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 16 '17 at 07:35

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Call on your ViewDidLoad the following method:

Objective-C:

self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = nil;

or

self.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = YES;

Swift:

navigationItem.hidesBackButton = true

edited Aug 16 '17 at 07:35

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answered Sep 23 '14 at 12:46

LS_

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I try call this code from `viewDidLoad` but not working. – ZhukV Sep 23 '14 at 13:03
Then try to call it on the ViewController that takes to this. For example if this is your second ViewController write the code I posted on the first ViewController ViewDidLoad method – LS_ Sep 23 '14 at 13:14

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 26 '15 at 09:11

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Swift:

self.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = true

answered Oct 26 '15 at 09:11

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score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 01 '14 at 07:31

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I found that this was caused by pushing a new view in viewWillAppear, if I moved it to viewDidAppear then the back button didn't show. Strange that this issue only appeared in iOS8.

answered Oct 01 '14 at 07:31

Glen Van Der Poel

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Nice hint, but for me, it was only in iOS 7. – Abdurrahman Mubeen Ali Aug 13 '15 at 17:25

score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 14 '15 at 04:01

Try this:

[self.navigationItem setHidesBackButton:YES];

for (UIView *view in self.navigationController.navigationBar.subviews)
{
    NSString *name = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",view.class];
    if ([name isEqualToString:@"UINavigationItemButtonView"] || [name isEqualToString:@"_UINavigationBarBackIndicatorView"]) {
        [view setHidden:YES];
    }
}

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Sep 23 '14 at 11:54

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Where have you written that code?

It should be as simple as in your view controller's loadView/viewDidLoad: method adding this

[self.navigationItem setHidesBackButton:YES];

This works for me on an iPhone 6

answered Sep 23 '14 at 11:54

SomeGuy

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Hmm... Not working. I added call this method in `viewDidLoad`. – ZhukV Sep 23 '14 at 12:01
This code `removeCategoriesButton ` called from controller - `viewWillAppear`, if necessary. – ZhukV Sep 23 '14 at 12:02

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered May 22 '15 at 14:09

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Try to use self.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = true in viewWillAppear() method, this worked for me.

answered May 22 '15 at 14:09

Oleg Novosad

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score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Aug 18 '17 at 20:46

Hiding the back button using setHidesBackButton only works if you have not customized the button.

From the method reference: "Specify true if the back button should be hidden when this navigation item is the top item. Specify false if the back button should be visible, assuming it has not been replaced by a custom item." (Note the last line)

The simply solution in that case is to first set the leftBarButtonItem to nil.

Swift 3.0:

self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = nil
self.navigationItem.setHidesBackButton(true, animated: false)

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Oct 03 '14 at 20:31

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This bug only happens when you use Storyboard. Another solution is add an UIBarButtonItem with empty title to "fake" it.

answered Oct 03 '14 at 20:31

Yue-Hsun Lin

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oscar castellon · Answer 11 · 2014-11-17T09:03:35.120

The only way I've found to do this is to hide the navigation bar and adding a navigation bar in storyboard and redisplay the navigation bar in the next ViewController. All I had to do is add a label in the status bar so that the navigation bar is uniform. I have found no other way...

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- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewWillAppear:YES];
    [[self navigationController] setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:YES];
}

so that the navigation bar is displayed in the next viewcontroller, declare in:

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [[self navigationController] setNavigationBarHidden:NO animated:YES];

}

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