Remove UINavigationBar back button title

Question

Is there a way to remove the title of back button items in all view controllers of an app?

Note: The important thing is the all word. The closest I've been is with this solution:

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

but as I mention in the comment there's an issue with large titles being pushed to the right so that this solution is not valid.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 22 '15 at 15:32

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Just set the title of the back button to ""

Here's a example in swift

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

To do it in all the view controllers, i usually make a BaseViewController where i include that line in the viewDidLoad method. Then when i have a viewcontroller i subclass it to the BaseViewController.

Your solution could work if you also move the x value -150, but for me it sounds like hack because you are still showing it all the time, but off the view bounds.

answered Oct 22 '15 at 15:32

Ibrahim Yildirim

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+1 for giving a valid solution, though having to extend all view controllers from a custom one is quite annoying. More, I'll have to implement `UITableViewController` custom class too. But nice approach, thank you – sonxurxo Oct 22 '15 at 16:10
Well you can make a ```UIViewController Extension``` (category in obj-c) with a method ```removeTitleFromBackButton()``` and then call ```self.removeTitleFromBackButton()``` in the viewControllers. – Ibrahim Yildirim Oct 22 '15 at 17:29
Finally accepted this answer as the only feasible. Thank you @IbrahimYildirim – sonxurxo Nov 17 '15 at 16:57

Jamil · Answer 2 · 2015-10-22T15:41:07.027

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try with this

self.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = YES;

to hide explicit(that you set yourself) back button

self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = nil;

edited Oct 22 '15 at 15:41

answered Oct 22 '15 at 15:28

Jamil

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That hides the back button, not the back button **title** – sonxurxo Oct 22 '15 at 16:02
in your case you can set nil / empty string to remove the title – Jamil Oct 22 '15 at 16:05
would you give me an image – Jamil Oct 22 '15 at 16:05
I'm explicitly saying that I want to hide the title and only the title in all view controllers of the app – sonxurxo Oct 22 '15 at 16:08
if you back button hide but did not hide title? how it is possible? It is impossible? so would you please share an image? – Jamil Oct 22 '15 at 16:14
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/93087/discussion-between-jamil65able-and-sonxurxo). – Jamil Oct 22 '15 at 16:17

Moriya · Answer 3 · 2015-10-23T00:02:15.820

One way of doing this that hasn't been mentioned is to use a custom tile view that displays the title in a label and then never actually setting the title property of the ViewControllers.

This should be set up in either an extension of the UIViewController or a base class.

Then you don't have to change the barButtonItem at all and you have options to do more changes to the title (with subtitles etc.)

Something like this:

extension UIViewController {

    func setTitleView(title:String) {
        let titleView = CustomTitleView()
        titleView.titleLabel.text = title
        self.navigationItem.titleView = titleView
    }
}

If you set up a simple CustomTitleView nib with one label outlet and some constraints.

Edit:

Title property needs to be set to " " on all the VC. That way the back buttons text in the next pushed VC will be titled " "

Back buttons title is set from previous view controllers title property. If the title is " " the buttons text is " ". I did forget to mention the title property needs to be set to " " though — Moriya, Oct 23 '15 at 00:00

Juan Ramirez · Answer 4 · 2019-02-03T02:35:33.267

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All you need to change the title of the back button of a UINavigationController is:

Swift:

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

You can add this to viewWillAppear of the new viewController being pushed or in a custom base class of UIViewController.

edited Feb 03 '19 at 02:35

answered Aug 18 '17 at 17:51

Juan Ramirez

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Remove UINavigationBar back button title

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