Remove back bar button title from container view

Question

I need empty back button title, so using category method as:

-(void)removeBackButtonTitle
{
    UIBarButtonItem *newBackButton =
    [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@""
                                     style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain
                                    target:nil
                                    action:nil];
    [[self navigationItem] setBackBarButtonItem:newBackButton];
}

But I have a situation where I need to take Container View and some viewcontroller as child view controller and its view as a subview. Now upon navigation from this view, back button title is not setting to empty.

guys, its not like normal navigation from one to next viewcontroller, its from `container view` of one to next viewcontroller. — Preetam Jadakar, May 10 '16 at 10:52

Balaji Ramakrishnan · Answer 1 · 2016-05-10T11:19:18.013

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Simply add the following code to your viewDidLoad/viewWillAppear..

self.navigationController.navigationBar.topItem.title = @"";

This will remove Back text from that Back button. Also here you can set your own title as you desire.

@preetam .. for your case, every view controller has its lifecycle methods viewDidLoad, viewWillAppear.

Also, you are using Default navigation bar/Custom NavigationBar as you shown in screenshot.

If you're using Default, then your answer is given above. otherwise, you can remove the Back text in Storyboard itself.

Hope it helps..

edited May 10 '16 at 11:19

answered May 10 '16 at 10:39

Balaji Ramakrishnan

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can you show your code ? Update the navigating code. – Balaji Ramakrishnan May 10 '16 at 11:44
posted in question..using this before pushing the viewcontroller – Preetam Jadakar May 10 '16 at 11:48
For pushing your viewcontroller, you'll need one navigationcontroller. So set the above code for that navigationcontroller. Thats it.. – Balaji Ramakrishnan May 10 '16 at 11:51

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 10 '16 at 10:47

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Try this code and set setTitle to blank @"":

[self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem setTitle:@""]; //make Title for backBarbutton to blank

It works for you

answered May 10 '16 at 10:47

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 12 '16 at 09:11

You need to add following lines of code in the (previous) view controllers where you don't want to display back button title.

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    self.title = @"Your Title";
}

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated {
    self.title = @"";
}

juanmjimenezs · Answer 4 · 2017-02-18T05:14:38.987

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For Swift 3 you can use this:

override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
  let backItem = UIBarButtonItem()
  backItem.title = ""
  navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = backItem}

edited Feb 18 '17 at 05:14

answered Feb 18 '17 at 04:04

juanmjimenezs

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score -1 · Answer 5 · answered May 10 '16 at 10:36

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Try below line of code.

UIBarButtonItem *newBackButton =
[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@""
                                 style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain
                                target:nil
                                action:nil];

self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItems =[[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:newBackButton, nil];
self.navigationItem.leftItemsSupplementBackButton = YES;

answered May 10 '16 at 10:36

Payal Maniyar

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Didn't you read in question about in container view this solution wont work? – Hima May 12 '16 at 09:12

Remove back bar button title from container view

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