How to remove all navigationbar back button title

Question

When I push a UIViewController, it has some title in back button at new UIViewController, if the title has a lot of text, It does not look good in iPhone 4s So I want to remove it.

If I add some code in prepareForSegue function, it is going to be a trouble.

Any better way to achieve this？

you can also change the title of back button. and to go back you requires back button . so i think no need to remove back button. — Ashok Londhe, Apr 28 '15 at 07:08
refer this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/48801613/3976183 — Kumar, Feb 15 '18 at 07:07
there's nice article about this issue https://sarunw.com/posts/how-to-remove-text-from-uinavigationbar-back-button/?utm_campaign=AppCoda%20Weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter — user3672430, Apr 25 '20 at 13:29

score 137 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 06 '21 at 04:43

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If you want back arrow so following code put into AppDelegate file into didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method.

For Objective-C

 [[UIBarButtonItem appearance] setBackButtonTitlePositionAdjustment:UIOffsetMake(0, -60) forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];

For Swift

let BarButtonItemAppearance = UIBarButtonItem.appearance()
BarButtonItemAppearance.setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.clear], for: .normal)

Another option give below.

In Objective C

self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:nil action:nil];

In Swift

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

UPDATE :

    let BarButtonItemAppearance = UIBarButtonItem.appearance()

    let attributes: [NSAttributedStringKey: Any] = [
    BarButtonItemAppearance.setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.clear], for: .normal)
            NSAttributedStringKey.font: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 0.1),
            NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.clear]

    BarButtonItemAppearance.setTitleTextAttributes(attributes, for: .normal)
    BarButtonItemAppearance.setTitleTextAttributes(attributes, for: .highlighted)

UPDATE SWIFT 4.1 :

    let attributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.font:  UIFont(name: "Helvetica-Bold", size: 0.1)!, NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.clear]

    BarButtonItemAppearance.setTitleTextAttributes(attributes, for: .normal)
    BarButtonItemAppearance.setTitleTextAttributes(attributes, for: .highlighted)

Using Offset

UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setBackButtonTitlePositionAdjustment(UIOffsetMake(-1000, 0), for:UIBarMetrics.default)

edited Nov 06 '21 at 04:43

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answered Apr 28 '15 at 07:08

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`setBackButtonTitlePositionAdjustment` does not always work, when the back button title is very long, but not long enough to change to "Back", the title in the middle will move right. – zgjie Jun 02 '16 at 04:08
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@zgjie it's just a subject of how large your offset. you can easily replace '-60' with '-6000' and forget about this problem – slxl Jul 29 '16 at 18:03
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Just a little precision here, the title belongs to the PREVIOUS view controller. So remember to set it there, before the presentViewController or pushViewController method. – Benjamin Aug 03 '16 at 15:33
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Hmm, this does doesn't work in AppDelegate. "Value of type AppDelegate has no member navigationItem" – Prabhu Aug 29 '16 at 18:29
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@Prabhu what are you doing? – Nimit Parekh Aug 29 '16 at 18:31
I tried this: self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: "", style: UIBarButtonItemStyle.Plain, target: nil, action: nil) – Prabhu Aug 29 '16 at 18:31
That seems to work. Is it a hack or is that the recommended approach? Thanks. – Prabhu Aug 29 '16 at 18:38
@sixl I agree can't found how to set the bar button hidden app wide, so I just put the adjustment value to -999999 – Dan Oct 29 '16 at 18:02
@Prabhu You should set your navigationItem in your viewController (somewhere like viewDidLoad:) instead of AppDelegate. Then it should work. – Michael Revlis Aug 17 '17 at 05:17
Is there any NON HACKY way to to this? This seems really tricky or really not good way to hide the label to just put the position of the label away... I mean is there some way to set its text to ""?? – Dominik Bucher Aug 26 '17 at 13:15
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@DominikBucher I've made a category for this behaviour which hides back button title from every where in the app which is kinda ["NON HACKY" way](https://stackoverflow.com/a/46153030/3308174), just add the category in your project and you're done . I strongly disagree with the solution of setting position using `setBackButtonTitlePositionAdjustment:forBarMetrics:` if user has enabled button shape from accessibility settings the shape will show up ending up ugly navigation bar. – Pratik Jamariya Sep 20 '17 at 18:53
setBackButtonTitlePositionAdjustment will break your vertical alignment in iOS11 – alasker Sep 21 '17 at 19:02
@alasker: I'm facing this issue of broken vertical alignment, do you have any better solution to hide the back title widely ? (I don't wan't to do it in every single viewcontroller of my app). – bobby Oct 04 '17 at 21:10
No, sorry... in my case I only had to hide it a few times so it wasn't such a problem. I guess someone will come up with something sooner than later.. or you can turn to apple's dev forums for an answer. – alasker Oct 05 '17 at 02:26
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@NimitParekh `setBackButtonTitlePositionAdjustment ` not working properly in xcode 9. The offset affects not only the back button text but also back arrows position. same code works properly in xcode 8. Have u got any solution to this? – Gokul G Oct 20 '17 at 11:08
Seems like a hacky way. You can still see the "Back" text **during** the click on the back button. – Kirill Jan 21 '19 at 22:23
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It affects not only back button title but also for example search controller cancel button. So be aware!, it might be better just to set the previous screen title to an empty string. – Bruno Muniz Feb 18 '19 at 06:11

score 82 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 06 '17 at 10:11

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Work's like charm on Swift 3

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.topItem?.title = " "

answered Jan 06 '17 at 10:11

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This is the only one that worked when using `navigationController?.pushViewController(_, animated:)` – D. Greg May 02 '17 at 04:55
Thanks, mate. This one was the only one that worked out. Cheers. – Felipe Aug 03 '17 at 23:13
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Worked for me also Swift 4 – christijk Oct 25 '17 at 07:31
It works. Better write an extension for UIViewController with this line. – Nidhin Oct 28 '17 at 14:20
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@MaksimKniazev, any fix for that problem? I found the only solution to update the title again in `viewWillAppear:`. – Hemang Mar 28 '18 at 08:26
https://stackoverflow.com/a/45366130/5061249 better solves the problem without any side effect. – Murat Yasar Sep 30 '18 at 09:52
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this removes the title of the previous view – Naser Mohamed Oct 15 '18 at 11:16
if need to remove the back button title: `self.navigationController?.navigationBar.backItem?.title = ""` – Lasantha Basnayake Jun 26 '20 at 05:15
downvoting because it removes the title if a large title is enabled. – Ankur Lahiry Apr 06 '22 at 08:03

Karthick C · Answer 3 · 2018-04-25T10:28:07.803

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I'm using this line of code in AppDelegate file into didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method to remove the backbutton title.

Swift 2.x

let barAppearace = UIBarButtonItem.appearance()
barAppearace.setBackButtonTitlePositionAdjustment(UIOffsetMake(0, -60), forBarMetrics:UIBarMetrics.Default)

Swift 3.x

UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setBackButtonTitlePositionAdjustment(UIOffsetMake(0, -60), for:UIBarMetrics.default)

Swift 4.x

UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.clear], for: .normal)
    UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.clear], for: UIControlState.highlighted)

edited Apr 25 '18 at 10:28

answered Nov 14 '15 at 10:49

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`setBackButtonTitlePositionAdjustment` does not always work, when the back button title is very long, but not long enough to change to "Back", the title in the middle will move right. – zgjie Jun 02 '16 at 04:08
It's not an ideal solution. If we set any navigation title without change the left navigation bar item's title, the title will shift right because of having left navigation bar title insets. – mathema Jun 15 '17 at 08:46
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in iOS 11 it is break the back button position. It falls below its original position – korgx9 Apr 15 '18 at 13:06
How is that supposed to work? The text will still be accessible via VoiceOver. – Lukasz Ciastko Apr 26 '18 at 17:53
This creates problem when cancel or done barbuttonitem are not visible when presenting imagepicker or something – Nupur Sharma Jun 12 '19 at 06:15

score 22 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 28 '17 at 06:14

Just need go to your Parent ViewController from where your other ViewControllers are dependent.

override func viewWillDisappear(animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillDisappear(true)
navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: "", style: .Plain, target: nil, action: nil)}

score 19 · Answer 5 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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Just copy this code in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions

Swift 5

UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setBackButtonTitlePositionAdjustment(UIOffset(horizontal: -1000.0, vertical: 0.0), for: .default)

Swift 4

UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setBackButtonTitlePositionAdjustment(UIOffsetMake(-1000.0, 0.0), for: .default)

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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Not working on iOS 15, xCode 13 – Vladimir Sukanica Nov 15 '21 at 14:58

score 17 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 26 '17 at 20:02

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it is simple. put a space in the title of the back button and ready. Remember that it has to be in the previous view where you want to remove the text.

answered Sep 26 '17 at 20:02

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Best solution IMO. Doesn't require you to set the whole app to a specific clear style which may have the side-affect of making any text barbuttonitems disappear. Answer could be made better if it mentioned that you have to drag a navigationItem to your controller if there isn't one there. – TheJeff Nov 27 '19 at 03:31

score 16 · Answer 7 · answered Nov 06 '20 at 10:35

On iOS 14 is now present the backButtonDisplayMode property in UINavigationItem class. So, to remove back button title you can use

navigationItem.backButtonDisplayMode = .minimal

in the viewDidLoad func of the viewController where you want remove it.

To remove it in all navigationBar I used the swizzling technique

import UIKit

private let swizzling: (UIViewController.Type, Selector, Selector) -> Void = { forClass, originalSelector, swizzledSelector in
    if let originalMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(forClass, originalSelector), let swizzledMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(forClass, swizzledSelector) {
        let didAddMethod = class_addMethod(forClass, originalSelector, method_getImplementation(swizzledMethod), method_getTypeEncoding(swizzledMethod))
        if didAddMethod {
            class_replaceMethod(forClass, swizzledSelector, method_getImplementation(originalMethod), method_getTypeEncoding(originalMethod))
        } else {
            method_exchangeImplementations(originalMethod, swizzledMethod)
        }
    }
}

extension UIViewController {
    
    static func swizzle() {
        let originalSelector1 = #selector(viewDidLoad)
        let swizzledSelector1 = #selector(swizzled_viewDidLoad)
        swizzling(UIViewController.self, originalSelector1, swizzledSelector1)
    }
    
    @objc open func swizzled_viewDidLoad() {
        if let _ = navigationController {
            if #available(iOS 14.0, *) {
                navigationItem.backButtonDisplayMode = .minimal
            } else {
                // Fallback on earlier versions
                navigationItem.backButtonTitle = ""
            }
        }
        swizzled_viewDidLoad()
    }
}

And in application(_:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:) call

UIViewController.swizzle()

Good to know about .minimal, but you need to set this on the nav controller that pushed the current view controller onto the stack. Unfortunately you can't just set it on the displaying view controller... — teradyl, Sep 13 '21 at 21:58

score 9 · Answer 8 · answered Jan 13 '17 at 13:11

You could create a subclass for all UIViewControllers you want this behavior for, and in the subclass's viewDidLoad:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(
        title: "", style: .plain, target: nil, action: nil)
}

This way, you can choose which controllers you want the behavior for, without duplicating code. I prefer my controllers to just say "Back", rather than the title of the previous controller, so I set that title here.

score 8 · Answer 9 · answered Nov 03 '16 at 18:44

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You can use xcode 8 and swift 3.0

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.backItem?.title = " "

answered Nov 03 '16 at 18:44

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Won't this remove the title from the previous view controller altogether? – NRitH Nov 03 '16 at 18:55
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Yes, it will remove the title for all `ViewController`s pushed from `self.navigationController` – Yevhen Dubinin Dec 24 '16 at 11:45

score 6 · Answer 10 · edited Jan 13 '17 at 13:08

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let barAppearace = UIBarButtonItem.appearance()
barAppearace.setBackButtonTitlePositionAdjustment(UIOffsetMake(0, -60), for:UIBarMetrics.default)

used this line of code in swift 3.0

edited Jan 13 '17 at 13:08

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answered Jan 13 '17 at 12:47

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will affect the cancel button for UISearchController – JAHelia Mar 12 '19 at 10:36

Harry Bloom · Answer 11 · 2017-07-13T14:52:36.470

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Taking inspiration from rordulu's answer here, I ended up creating a custom UINavigationController and UINavigation bar which seems to handle all cases of this tricky problem.

1) Initialise new UINavigationController with your custom UINavigationBar:

class CustomNavigationController: UINavigationController {

    convenience init() {
        self.init(navigationBarClass: CustomNavigationBar.self, toolbarClass: nil)
    }
}

2) Set the backItem.title property of the navigation bar to an empty string, every time the view lays itself out

class CustomNavigationBar: UINavigationBar {

    override func layoutSubviews() {
        backItem?.title = ""
        super.layoutSubviews()
    }
}

Now every time you use this navigation controller and bar combination, it will never have back button text!

Note: this should work fine if using storyboards also, just ensure to drop the custom navigation bar component into the view

edited Jul 13 '17 at 14:52

answered Jun 22 '17 at 11:27

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Amazing thanks so much! This is the best way to do it and should be the correct answer :) – GameDev Jul 13 '17 at 12:49
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Just realised that this has a side-effect in that it will wipe the navigation item title completely. So when the previous view shows, it will not have a title! I will carry on my search for the perfect solution to this annoying problem. – Harry Bloom Jul 14 '17 at 15:35
damn you are right. How could i miss that! Please tell me if you find a fix of this issue. thanks – GameDev Jul 17 '17 at 11:29
Could you find out the perfect solution @HarryBloom? – Hemang Mar 03 '18 at 06:07
@Hemang Not a perfect solution, but I found something that works. Have added a second answer here https://stackoverflow.com/a/49094282/1532838 – Harry Bloom Mar 04 '18 at 10:17

score 5 · Answer 12 · answered Dec 15 '20 at 18:09

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A method for iOS13.

let backButtonAppearance = UIBarButtonItemAppearance(style: .plain)
backButtonAppearance.normal.titleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: UIColor.clear]

let navigationBarAppearance = UINavigationBarAppearance()
navigationBarAppearance.backButtonAppearance = backButtonAppearance

UINavigationBar.appearance().standardAppearance = navigationBarAppearance

answered Dec 15 '20 at 18:09

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Single solution that works for me on iOS 16.1.1 – Vladimir Kuzomenskyi Dec 04 '22 at 15:21

score 4 · Answer 13 · answered Sep 29 '18 at 07:17

Simple Solution :

While you are pushing 2nd controller from 1st controller, put self.navigationItem.title = "" in viewWillDisappear of 1st controller. It hides back button title from 2nd controller.

Above statment hides 1st controllers title, hence when we came back we want title for 1st controller again. For that we have add title for 1st controller in viewWillAppear method of 1st controller.

Refer following methods (of 1st controller)

    override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
    self.navigationItem.title = ""
}

override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    self.navigationItem.title = "Title"
}

Saeed Ir · Answer 14 · 2019-11-06T06:49:28.033

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Works on Swift 5:

        self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem?.title = ""

Please note it will be effective for the next pushed view controller not the current one on the display, that's why it's very confusing!

Also, check the storyboard and select the navigation item of the previous view controller then type something in the Back Button (Inspector).

edited Nov 06 '19 at 06:49

answered Nov 06 '19 at 05:39

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title is not a get property, check Apple documentation – Saeed Ir Jun 28 '21 at 01:08

score 3 · Answer 15 · answered Apr 28 '15 at 07:08

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I usually add or change the back button in viewDidLoad of the UIViewController.

Something like that should work:

let leftButton = UIBarButtonItem(title: "Back", style:     UIBarButtonItemStyle.Plain, target: self, action: "closeView:")
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = leftButton

Don't forget to change and implement the function that it's called to close the view.

Even easier, just change the title:

self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem.title = "Back"

answered Apr 28 '15 at 07:08

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This breaks iOS's built-in support for swiping left to right to navigate back, and IMHO, apps that break this are really irritating. – NRitH Nov 03 '16 at 18:53

score 3 · Answer 16 · answered Feb 03 '22 at 14:45

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    if #available(iOS 14.0, *) {
        navigationItem.backButtonDisplayMode = .minimal
    } else {
        navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: "", style: .plain, target: nil, action: nil)
    }

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score 2 · Answer 17 · edited Jan 13 '17 at 10:52

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Swift 3:

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

edited Jan 13 '17 at 10:52

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Harry Bloom · Answer 18 · 2018-03-09T10:25:05.417

Adding a second answer here as my first only partially works. This method is less elegant in the fact that it requires calling a method in each view in the application, however it works without any side-effects.

So firstly, create a UIViewController extension class with a function to remove back button text and add a custom back button:

extension UIViewController {

func setBackButton() {
    navigationController?.navigationBar.backIndicatorImage = R.image.backArrow()
    navigationController?.navigationBar.backIndicatorTransitionMaskImage = R.image.backArrow()
    navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: " ", style: .plain, target: nil, action: nil)
}

Secondly, we can simply call out to this function in the viewDidLoad of each view controller you need it in.

score 2 · Answer 19 · answered Oct 08 '18 at 15:10

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Swift 4.2

UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([.foregroundColor: UIColor.clear], for: .normal)

answered Oct 08 '18 at 15:10

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Cancel and Done button of imagepicker are disappeared in this approach – Nupur Sharma Jun 12 '19 at 06:19

score 2 · Answer 20 · answered Jan 18 '19 at 07:37

Updated Answer For Swift 4.2

Working with UIAppearance is a cleaner way of solving the problem but it would cause all the UIBarButtonItem to have a clear text. An improved version of the solution could be to check if the UIBarButtonItem is contained in a UINavigationBar.

    UIBarButtonItem.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UINavigationBar.self]).setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.clear], for: .normal)

score 2 · Answer 21 · answered Sep 27 '19 at 06:12

Just create extension of UIViewController with override function awakeFromNib() and make UIBarButtonItem with an empty title and give to navigation backBarButtonItem.

extension UIViewController {

  open override func awakeFromNib() {
    let backBarBtnItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: "", style: .plain, target: nil, action: nil)
    navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = backBarBtnItem
  }

}

Pavel Bogart · Answer 22 · 2022-02-05T13:30:58.897

if you want to remove back button title when you open next screen

do this inside the function initialising and pushing a new screen:

navigationItem.backButtonTitle = ""

Full usage:

    let view = SomeView()
    let controller = UIHostingController(rootView: view)
    navigationItem.backButtonTitle = ""
    navigationController?.pushViewController(controller, animated: true)

But to customise back buttons for all navigation bars in your app you need to do this:

func setupNavBarAppearance() {
    let backButtonImage = Images.west.image.withAlignmentRectInsets(UIEdgeInsets(top: -5, left: -15, bottom: -5, right: -15))
    let backButtonAppearance = UIBarButtonItemAppearance(style: .plain)
    backButtonAppearance.normal.titleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: UIColor.clear]
    
    let appearance = UINavigationBarAppearance()
    appearance.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor : UIColor.white]
    appearance.backButtonAppearance = backButtonAppearance
    appearance.setBackIndicatorImage(backButtonImage, transitionMaskImage: backButtonImage)
    
    UINavigationBar.appearance().standardAppearance = appearance
    UINavigationBar.appearance().scrollEdgeAppearance = appearance
    UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = .white
    UINavigationBar.appearance().isTranslucent = false
}

You can call it from your AppDelegate.swift

score 1 · Answer 23 · answered Jun 21 '19 at 12:24

Swift 4.2 & 5

Instead of playing with the navigation bar tint color which will have side effects if you are using image picker anytime later in your code.

Use below code:

extension UIViewController {
        open override func awakeFromNib() {
            navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: "", style: .plain, target: nil, action: nil)
    }  
}

Call it from your first ViewController:

self.awakeFromNib()

score 1 · Answer 24 · answered Sep 27 '19 at 06:38

Put the below code in any of the UIViewcontroller extension it will hide all the UIViewcontroller back text

open override func awakeFromNib() {
        navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: "", style: .plain, target: nil, action: nil)
    }

score 1 · Answer 25 · edited Nov 26 '19 at 18:30

I have a simple solution for those, who don't want to use method swizzling or duplicating a similar code in different view controllers.

To remove back button title, create a UINavigationController subclass and override pushViewController(_, animated:) method:

final class CustomNavigationController: UINavigationController {

    override func pushViewController(_ viewController: UIViewController, animated: Bool) {

        super.pushViewController(viewController, animated: animated)

        let backBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem()
        backBarButtonItem.title = nil

        viewController.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = backBarButtonItem
    }
}

score 0 · Answer 26 · answered Aug 04 '17 at 06:20

I don't know why but I found problem with hiding back button title in iPhone pluses but in device without plus shows correct with

leftBarButtonItem.title = ""

So I found simple way. It is set tint color to clear in NavigationBar of NavigationViewController in autolayout. It may be problem if you use icons or text tiles with tint. But in my case I don't use it as all.

score 0 · Answer 27 · answered Jan 13 '18 at 08:11

Just use this:

func removeBackButton(vc:UIViewController) {
        let button = UIButton.init(type: .custom)
        button.setImage(UIImage.init(named:""), for: .normal)
        let leftBarButton = UIBarButtonItem.init(customView: button)
        vc.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = leftBarButton
}

So call this method in viewDidLoad:

override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
     removeBackButton(vc:self)
}

score 0 · Answer 28 · answered Apr 05 '18 at 07:37

You can add this extension to UIViewController And then call this function in every viewDidLoad() like : self.updateBackButton()

extension UIViewController {
func updateBackButton(){
    if self.navigationController != nil {
        self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: "", style: .done, target: self, action: nil)
    }
}}

score 0 · Answer 29 · answered Dec 21 '18 at 14:29

I would like to share a solution that works for me. Also, it can be adjusted base on your needs and requirements.

Note, in my case, I use a storyboard to specify CustomNavigationBar

Swift 4.2

class CustomNavigationBar: UINavigationBar {

    override func awakeFromNib() {
        super.awakeFromNib()
        guard let topItem = topItem else { return }
        removeBackButtonTitle(for: topItem)
    }

    override func pushItem(_ item: UINavigationItem, animated: Bool) {
        removeBackButtonTitle(for: item)
        super.pushItem(item, animated: animated)
    }

    func removeBackButtonTitle(for item: UINavigationItem) {
        item.backBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem()
    }
}

score 0 · Answer 30 · answered Jun 07 '19 at 15:17

Works for Swift 4.2

Using the line of code in AppDelegate file into didFinishLaunchingWithOptions

    UIBarButtonItem.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UINavigationBar.self]).setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.clear], for: .normal)

    UIBarButtonItem.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UINavigationBar.self]).setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.clear], for: .highlighted)

This hides the back bar button text but unfortunately doesn't center the navigation bar title — Giorgio, Jul 20 '20 at 13:38

score 0 · Answer 31 · answered Sep 25 '19 at 13:26

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for swift 4,5

let BarButtonItemAppearance = UIBarButtonItem.appearance()
BarButtonItemAppearance.setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.clear], for: .normal)

answered Sep 25 '19 at 13:26

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score 0 · Answer 32 · answered Apr 08 '21 at 19:17

class NavigationController: UINavigationController {

    override func pushViewController(_ viewController: UIViewController, animated: Bool) {
        super.pushViewController(viewController, animated: animated)

        viewController.navigationItem.backButtonTitle = ""
    }
}

score 0 · Answer 33 · answered Dec 19 '22 at 20:59

final class MainNavigationController: UINavigationController {
    override init(rootViewController: UIViewController) {
        super.init(rootViewController: rootViewController)
        delegate = self
    }

    @available(*, unavailable)
    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
    }
}

// MARK: UINavigationController Delegate
extension MainNavigationController: UINavigationControllerDelegate {
    func navigationController(
        _ navigationController: UINavigationController,
        willShow viewController: UIViewController,
        animated: Bool
    ) {
        viewController.navigationItem.backButtonTitle = ""
    }
}

score -1 · Answer 34 · answered Jul 02 '20 at 13:55

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in viewDidLoad()

    let backBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: nil, style: .plain, target: nil, action: nil)
    navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = backBarButtonItem

answered Jul 02 '20 at 13:55

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score -4 · Answer 35 · answered Jun 14 '16 at 14:10

I was not satisfied with the setBackButtonTitlePositionAdjustment solution, so here is a swift alternative to hide all back button texts throughout the applicataion:

    UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: barbuttonFont, NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.clearColor()], forState: UIControlState.Normal)
    UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: barbuttonFont, NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.clearColor()], forState: UIControlState.Highlighted)

You would have to call these from the AppDelegate in the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions func.

Appearance must be set to the .Highlighted state too to avoid texts being show when the user taps the back button.

that will hide all other UIBarButtonItems as well – slxl Jul 29 '16 at 18:02 — slxl, Jul 29 '16 at 18:02

How to remove all navigationbar back button title

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