UIDocumentPicker navigation bar buttons are hidden at iOS 11

Question

I notice a problem in my UIDocumentPicker's navigation bar at iOS 11 only, the done, cancel, or edit buttons are invisible, and when the user touch it it appears i.e. The color at normal state is white, even when changing the UINavigationBar.appearnce().tintColor, The color only changed on touch.

`UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = tintColor` have to work. — Vyacheslav, Nov 26 '17 at 13:22
I have the exact same problem! The buttons are not displayed but are working when tapped.. — franswa, Dec 17 '17 at 20:12

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 18 '17 at 07:23

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For unknown reason I figured out that if you make a subclass of UIDocumentPicker using Objective-C and set the [UINavigationBar appearance].tintColor = [UIColor black]; in viewWillAppear func, and reset it to your defaults in the viewWillDisappear, it works well.

But if you do the same steps using swift it wont.

answered Dec 18 '17 at 07:23

Ahmed Adnan Qazzaz

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Awesome You are genius Ahmed working like charm Thank You :-) – Yogesh Patel Feb 01 '19 at 07:59

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 19 '18 at 16:40

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I'm not a big fan of setting the global appearance between viewWillAppear and viewWillDisappear. The appearance API should be used at application start only. You can just reset the appearance for UIDocumentPickerViewController only without subclassing by putting this code in application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: and the bar buttons will return the their original blue:

if #available(iOS 11.0, *) {
    UINavigationBar.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UIDocumentBrowserViewController.self]).tintColor = nil
}

answered Apr 19 '18 at 16:40

Antoine Lamy

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it's worked..can help me i have same problem on UIactivity view controller.. what can i do. – Maulik shah Apr 11 '19 at 09:21
can you what will be the syntax in objective c. – Manish Kumar Feb 18 '20 at 07:53

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 02 '18 at 18:50

Use CustomDocumentPickerViewController with black appearance for UINavigationBar and UIBarButtonItem

import UIKit

class CustomDocumentPickerViewController: UIDocumentPickerViewController {

    override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
        super.viewWillAppear(animated)

        UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.black
        UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.black], for: .normal)
    }

    override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {

        UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.white // your color
        UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes(nil, for: .normal)
        super.viewWillDisappear(animated)

    }

}

can you what will be the syntax in objective c?? – Manish Kumar Feb 18 '20 at 07:53 — Manish Kumar, Feb 18 '20 at 07:53

UIDocumentPicker navigation bar buttons are hidden at iOS 11

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