Change Navigation Bar title color and back button title color

Question

I want to change the UINavigationBar titleColor.

I also want to change the textColor of the UINavigationBar backButton.

I am using iPhone Os sdk 3.1.2

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 20 '12 at 17:40

This worked for me.

Using this you can change the color of all of the navigation buttons:

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

Replace redColor with the following to adjust the color of the buttons:

colorWithRed:0/255.0 green:144/255.0 blue:200/255.0 alpha:1.0// pick your color using this

Be sure to put this in the view controller that pushes. Not the view controller where you want to see this back button color.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

One part of this question has already been answered.

Then, to change the back button title color, I would suggest creating a custom button with a label:

UIBarButtonItem *buttonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:yourViewWithColoredText];
navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = buttonItem; // assign it as the left button

yourViewWithColoredText should be a custom view containing your colored text. Then depending on what you want, you could make it look like a standard back button.

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 23 '11 at 05:05

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You can set the titleView, defined in UINavigationBar.h as:

 @property(nonatomic,retain) UIView *titleView;
// Custom view to use in lieu of a title. May be sized horizontally. Only used when item is topmost on the stack.

Pop your own UILabel in there with whatever color you want.

edited Dec 23 '11 at 05:05

Anthony Pegram

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answered Nov 05 '09 at 11:24

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 09 '13 at 06:12

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UIBarButtonItem *button = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] init];
[button setTintColor:[UIColor redColor]];

answered Oct 09 '13 at 06:12

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered May 06 '14 at 09:54

Set the title on UINavigationBar on iOS 5 & 6

[self.navigationController.navigationBar setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:[UIColor blackColor] forKey:UITextAttributeTextColor]];

On iOS 7

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

Set the textColor on all UIBarButtonItem

NSDictionary *attributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                    [UIColor blackColor], UITextAttributeTextColor,
                                    [UIColor clearColor], UITextAttributeTextShadowColor, nil];

[[UIBarButtonItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:attributes forState: UIControlStateNormal];

Change Navigation Bar title color and back button title color

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