Change back button title when pushing a UIViewController on UITableViewController

Question

View hierarchy:

UINavigationController
      ->UITableViewController(1)
             ->UITableViewController(2)
                   ->UIViewController(3)

In 1 and 2 I have this code:

override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject?) {
    self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem?.title = ""
}

It should override the back button title of the next view controller pushed on the current view controller. It works from 1 -> 2. But it does not work for 2 -> 3. In 3 the back button title has a title, the name of the previous UITableViewController.

Any ideas whats wrong? I am using swift, xcode6.1 and iOS8.1

score 12 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 22 '15 at 03:00

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You could init a new back button with no title. Just put this in the viewDidLoad() of each view controller.

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

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I am going to extend this answer with my experience. So I managed to remove the title of the back button to display just the back arrow. In storyboard you have to select the navigation item that displays the title inside the navigation bar of the previous view controller. There is a property called Back Button. Just enter a space and save. It will remove the back button title.

Update UIBarButtonItemStyle.Bordered was deprecated in iOS 8.0. Use UIBarButtonItemStyle.Plain instead.

edited Oct 22 '15 at 03:00

Adrian

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answered Nov 07 '14 at 18:42

Ron Fessler

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How come this isn't working for me? Tried cleaning, rebuilding but the text is still there. – Jack Feb 03 '15 at 08:51
Nice! Thanks for this – Mario Galván Mar 10 '16 at 05:55
Working solution: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25167458/changing-navigation-title-programmatically – Faizan Mubasher Feb 15 '18 at 10:28

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 08 '16 at 07:20

thanks, if you want using customer back button image, you can use this

    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.backIndicatorImage = UIImage(named: “backImage”)
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.backIndicatorTransitionMaskImage = UIImage(named: “ backImage”)

    self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: “”, style: UIBarButtonItemStyle.Plain, target: nil, action: nil)

Change back button title when pushing a UIViewController on UITableViewController

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