How to hide the tabBar when push a view?

Question

My application is a Tabbed Application, and it have several controllers under the tabBarController. One controller is a navigationController, and its root view is a table view. When I click a row of the table view, another view will be pushed in. So the question is that when the view is pushed in, how can I hide the tabBar at the bottom? Besides, I also want to add another tabBar into the pushed view, so I need to alloc a UITabBar or UITabBarController? Or there is another way? Thank you!

Bonnie · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-20T07:19:21.637

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use this methood in the UIViewController class where you want to hide the tabBarController

-(BOOL)hidesBottomBarWhenPushed
{
    return YES;
}

Update

As suggested by @Yuchen Zhong in his answer, This option is now available in the storyboard itself.

edited Jul 20 '17 at 07:19

answered Jan 02 '12 at 13:52

Bonnie

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Thanks! I used this method but it still did not work. I also used "myViewController.tabBarController.hidesBottomBarWhenPushe = YES", and it didn't work too. I'm confused about this. Do I need to change my structure or there are better ways? Thank you! – wjldxt Jan 03 '12 at 04:58
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I have a similar TabBar application with NavigationController as its 1st controller, but in the navigationController I have then only added a tableView, and push the other view's in didSelectRow methood of the table view. have you taken tableVeiwController instead a simple tableView..?? would be helpful if you paste some of your code here – Bonnie Jan 03 '12 at 05:46
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Thank you! I did it eventually. It's my own fault that I put the navigationController into a viewController. When I use the navigationController directly, it succeeded. Thank you very much! – wjldxt Jan 03 '12 at 05:59

score 20 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 30 '16 at 21:57

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You can do this in storyboard now:

Select the UIViewController in your storyboard
Select the checkbox Hide Bottom Bar on Push

answered Sep 30 '16 at 21:57

Yuchen

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score 15 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 11 '21 at 11:23

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Set UIViewController.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = YES when you want hide tab bar.

nextViewController.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = YES;

edited Feb 11 '21 at 11:23

aturan23

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answered Feb 20 '15 at 06:40

tuoxie007

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score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 20 '16 at 20:51

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Sometimes the hidesBottomBarWhenPushed method hides the bottom bar with a choppy animation.

Instead I hide the tabbar in viewDidLoad with

self.tabBarController.tabBar.hidden = YES;

and restore its presence in viewWillDisappear

self.tabBarController.tabBar.hidden = NO;

answered Jan 20 '16 at 20:51

Zack Zhu

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not nice, as you assume in this VC that another VC on the stack wants the tabbar - also `viewDidLoad` is the wrong location, as it might be called even when this VC does not yet appear, also `self.tabBarController` might be `nil` – fabb Jun 13 '17 at 12:44

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 13 '19 at 17:43

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Set true hidesBottomBarWhenPushed in the controller that you want to hide.

For hide all controllers put into prepare for segue

override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
    segue.destination.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = true
}

answered Aug 13 '19 at 17:43

Haroldo Gondim

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How to hide the tabBar when push a view?

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