iOS: Hide navigationItem's backButton - AND ITS TEXT

Question

I have a UITabBarController (my app's home page) using its navigationController to show a 2nd UIViewController. I want to hide the back button completely from the 2nd viewController.

In my 2nd UIViewController's viewDidLoad() I'm trying to hide the back button in many ways (and I've tried all reasonable subsets of these):

navigationItem.hidesBackButton = true
navigationItem.setLeftBarButtonItems(nil, animated: true)
navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: "", style: .Plain, target: nil, action: nil)
navigationItem.setHidesBackButton(true, animated: false)

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

and the text (the title of the tab bar controller) persists:

I don't want to jump to the conclusion that this is a bug, but might this be a bug in iOS?

I've tried all the answers found here: iOS 8: UINavigationController hide back button, but none of them have given me success.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 14 '16 at 07:07

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try this

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    self.tabBarController?.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = true
}

or

self.navigationItem.setLeftBarButtonItem(nil, animated: true)

answered Mar 14 '16 at 07:07

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Abhinandan Pratap · Answer 2 · 2016-03-14T06:33:10.553

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use this code to hide back button

for Objective-C

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
    self.navigationItem.hidesBackButton=YES;
}

for Swift

navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: "", style: .Plain, target: nil, action: nil)

edited Mar 14 '16 at 06:33

answered Mar 14 '16 at 06:13

Abhinandan Pratap

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I'm doing the swift version of this already.... `navigationItem.hidesBackButton = true` – olympia Mar 14 '16 at 06:14
... but this still isn't hiding the back button's text. – olympia Mar 14 '16 at 06:20
`self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = nil` doesn't have a visible effect on the back button – olympia Mar 14 '16 at 06:25

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 21 '16 at 11:48

I found no answers, but I found a workaround.

I'll keep this open in hope of a better answer some day.

My solution:

Wrap the 2nd UIViewController in a new UINavigationController. Now the navigationItem.leftBarButtonItems = [<YOUR BACK BUTTON>] is successful in overriding the back button.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 25 '16 at 03:06

All you need is to select navigationcontroller in the Xcode and goto Attributes Inspector in the right panel of xcode then In the navigation cotroller section deselect show navigation bar.enter image description here

also you have two more option in the second view controller shown bellow :

override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)
option 1    navigationController?.setNavigationBarHidden(true, animated: false)
option 2    navigationController?.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = true
}

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 18 '17 at 18:27

I don't know why, but the following method worked for me. Before loading the destination viewcontroller we should hide backbutton. This is tested in Swift 3, XCode 8, iOS 10 Simulator.

override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
        if segue.identifier == "destinationSegue" {
            let destinationVC = segue.destination as! DestinationViewController
            destinationVC.navigationItem.setHidesBackButton(true, animated: false)
        }
    }

score -2 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 15 '16 at 05:46

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Simply use the following:

self.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = true;

answered Mar 15 '16 at 05:46

Karthik

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I've tried this... if you read my question you'll see that this is the first thing I tried. – olympia Mar 15 '16 at 06:13

iOS: Hide navigationItem's backButton - AND ITS TEXT

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