How to hide UINavigationBar 1px bottom line

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I have an app that sometimes needs its navigation bar to blend in with the content    Does anyone know how to get rid of or to change color of this annoying little bar    On the image below situation i have - i m talking about this 1px height line below  Root View Controller

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The problem with setting a background image is it removes blurring  You can remove it without setting a background image  See my answer here

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Wanted to add the Swift version of Serhii s answer  I created a UIBarExtension swift with the following   import Foundation import UIKit  extension UINavigationBar       func hideBottomHairline             self hairlineImageView  isHidden   true            func showBottomHairline             self hairlineImageView  isHidden   false          extension UIToolbar       func hideBottomHairline             self hairlineImageView  isHidden   true            func showBottomHairline             self hairlineImageView  isHidden   false          extension UIView       fileprivate var hairlineImageView  UIImageView            return hairlineImageView in  self             fileprivate func hairlineImageView in view  UIView  - gt  UIImageView            if let imageView   view as  UIImageView  imageView bounds height  lt   1 0               return imageView                    for subview in view subviews               if let imageView   self hairlineImageView in  subview    return imageView                      return nil

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Swift put this   UINavigationBar appearance   setBackgroundImage UIImage    forBarPosition   Any  barMetrics   Default  UINavigationBar appearance   shadowImage   UIImage     in    func application application  UIApplication  didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions   NSObject  AnyObject    - gt  Bool

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Here s a very simple solution   self navigationController navigationBar clipsToBounds   YES

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A nice short Swift function to find the hairline in the subviews is this one    func findHairLineInImageViewUnder view view  UIView  - gt  UIImageView        if let hairLineView   view as  UIImageView where hairLineView bounds size height  lt   1 0           return hairLineView            if let hairLineView   view subviews flatMap  self findHairLineInImageViewUnder view   0    first         return hairLineView            return nil

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I ran into the same issue and none of the answers were truly satisfying  Here is my take for Swift3   func hideNavigationBarLine         navigationController  navigationBar setBackgroundImage UIImage    for   default      navigationController  navigationBar shadowImage   UIImage       Simply call this from within viewDidLoad

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Another option if you want to preserve translucency and you don t want to subclass every UINavigationController in your app    import  lt objc runtime h gt    implementation UINavigationController  NoShadow      void load       Method original   class getInstanceMethod self   selector viewWillAppear         Method swizzled   class getInstanceMethod self   selector swizzled viewWillAppear         method exchangeImplementations original  swizzled         UIImageView   findHairlineImageViewUnder  UIView   view       if   view isKindOfClass UIImageView class   amp  amp  view bounds size height  lt   1 0            return  UIImageView   view             for  UIView  subview in view subviews            UIImageView  imageView    self findHairlineImageViewUnder subview           if  imageView                return imageView                       return nil     -  void swizzled viewWillAppear  BOOL animated       UIImageView  shadow    UINavigationController findHairlineImageViewUnder self navigationBar       shadow hidden   YES        self swizzled viewWillAppear animated       end

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Can also be hidden from Storyboard  working on Xcode 10 1   By adding runtime attribute  hidesShadow - Boolean - True

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I know this is an old thread  but I found a solution that works really well   Subclass UINavigationBar  In your UINavigationBar subclass  override didAddSubview with the following code   -  void didAddSubview  UIView   subview        super didAddSubview subview        if   subview isKindOfClass  UIImageView class               subview setClipsToBounds YES

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I use a UINavigationBar extension that enables me to hide show that shadow using the UIAppearance API or selecting which navigation bar has to hide show that shadow using Storyboard  or source code   Here is the extension   import UIKit  private var flatAssociatedObjectKey  UInt8   0       An extension that adds a  flat  field to UINavigationBar  This flag  when   enabled  removes the shadow under the navigation bar       IBDesignable extension UINavigationBar        IBInspectable var flat  Bool           get               guard let obj   objc getAssociatedObject self   amp flatAssociatedObjectKey  as  NSNumber else                   return false                           return obj boolValue                     set               if  newValue                    let void   UIImage                   setBackgroundImage void  forBarPosition   Any  barMetrics   Default                  shadowImage   void               else                   setBackgroundImage nil  forBarPosition   Any  barMetrics   Default                  shadowImage   nil                           objc setAssociatedObject self   amp flatAssociatedObjectKey  NSNumber bool  newValue                       objc AssociationPolicy OBJC ASSOCIATION RETAIN NONATOMIC                      Now  to disable the shadow across all navigation bars you have to use   UINavigationBar appearance   flat   true   Or you can enable disable this behavior using storyboards

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As of iOS 13 there is a system API to set or remove the shadow     UIKit uses shadowImage and the shadowColor property to determine the shadow s   appearance  When shadowImage is nil  the bar displays a default shadow tinted   according to the value in the shadowColor property  If shadowColor is nil or   contains the clearColor color  the bar displays no shadow        let appearance   UINavigationBarAppearance       appearance shadowImage   nil     appearance shadowColor   nil     navigationController navigationBar standardAppearance   appearance   https   developer apple com documentation uikit uibarappearance 3198009-shadowimage

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Within AppDelegate  this has globally changed the format of the NavBar    func application application  UIApplication  didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions   NSObject  AnyObject    - gt  Bool        UINavigationBar appearance   setBackgroundImage UIImage    forBarPosition  UIBarPosition Any  barMetrics  UIBarMetrics Default      UINavigationBar appearance   shadowImage   UIImage       UINavigationBar appearance   tintColor   UIColor whiteColor       UINavigationBar appearance   barTintColor   UIColor redColor       UINavigationBar appearance   translucent   false     UINavigationBar appearance   clipsToBounds   false     UINavigationBar appearance   backgroundColor   UIColor redColor       UINavigationBar appearance   titleTextAttributes    NSFontAttributeName    UIFont name   FONT NAME   size  18     NSForegroundColorAttributeName  UIColor whiteColor        Haven t managed to implement anything different on a specific VC  but this will help 90  of people

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Hi this works for Swift 4       override func viewDidLayoutSubviews         super viewDidLayoutSubviews       self navigationController  navigationBar shadowImage   UIImage       self navigationController  navigationBar setBackgroundImage UIImage    for   default      self navigationController  navigationBar isTranslucent   false     you need to put this in viewDidLayoutSubviews instead of viewDidLoad

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You should add a view to a bottom of the UISearchBar   let rect   searchController searchBar frame  let lineView   UIView   UIView init frame  CGRect init x  0  y  rect size height-1  width  rect size width  height  1   lineView backgroundColor   UIColor init hexString   8CC73E   searchController searchBar addSubview lineView

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It s very important to not use navigationController  navigationBar setValue true  forKey   quot hidesShadow quot   because at any time  Apple could remove the  quot hidesShadow quot  key path  If they were to do this  any app using this call would break  Since you are not accessing the direct API of a class  this call is subject to App Store rejection  As of iOS 13  to ensure efficiency  you can do the following  navigationBar standardAppearance shadowColor   nil

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Here is an way to do it without using any images  this is the only way that worked for me   self navigationController navigationBar layer shadowOpacity   0    Unfortunately  you need to do this on every file where you want the line not to appear  There s no way to do it this way in appDelegate   Edit   Setting the shadowColor to nil isn t needed  this is the only line that you ll need

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In Swift 3 0  Edit your AppDelegate swift by adding the following code to your application function      Override point for customization after application launch      Remove border in navigationBar UINavigationBar appearance   shadowImage   UIImage   UINavigationBar appearance   setBackgroundImage UIImage    for   default

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The swift way to do it  UINavigationBar appearance   setBackgroundImage UIImage    for   any  barMetrics   default  UINavigationBar appearance   shadowImage   UIImage

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Solution in Swift 4 2   private func removeHairlineFromNavbar         UINavigationBar appearance   setBackgroundImage          UIImage            for   any          barMetrics   default      UINavigationBar appearance   shadowImage   UIImage       Just put this function at the first Viewcontroller and call it in viewdidload

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I Just created an extension for this    Sorry about formatting  this is my first answer    Usage          override func viewDidLoad         super viewDidLoad       self navigationController  hideShadow   true     Extension     UINavigationController swift     Created by Ricardo L  pez Rey on 16 7 15   import Foundation   struct UINavigationControllerExtension       static var hideShadowKey   String    HideShadow  static let backColor   UIColor red  247 255  green  247 255  blue  248 255  alpha  1 0     extension UINavigationController        var hideShadow   Bool           get               if let ret    objc getAssociatedObject self   amp UINavigationControllerExtension hideShadowKey  as  Bool                   return ret               else                   return false                                   set               objc setAssociatedObject self  amp UINavigationControllerExtension hideShadowKey newValue  objc AssociationPolicy OBJC ASSOCIATION RETAIN NONATOMIC                if newValue                 self navigationBar setBackgroundImage solidImage UINavigationControllerExtension backColor   forBarMetrics  UIBarMetrics Default                   self navigationBar shadowImage   solidImage UIColor clearColor                  else                   self navigationBar setBackgroundImage nil  forBarMetrics  UIBarMetrics Default                                     private func solidImage color  UIColor  size  CGSize   CGSize width  1 height  1   - gt  UIImage           var rect   CGRectMake 0  0  size width  size height          UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions size  false  0          color setFill           UIRectFill rect          var image  UIImage   UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext           UIGraphicsEndImageContext           return image

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In Xamarin Forms this worked for me  Just add this on AppDelegate cs   UINavigationBar Appearance ShadowImage   new UIImage

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This might sound stupid  but this hairline only appears when the background color for viewController s view is set to any color  but white  I was shocked to learn this fact   So if you want it to disappear without much trouble just set the controller s view background color to WHITE COLOR

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In iOS8  if you set the UINavigationBar barStyle to  Black you can set the bar s background as plain color without the border    In Swift   UINavigationBar appearance   translucent   false UINavigationBar appearance   barStyle   UIBarStyle Black UINavigationBar appearance   barTintColor   UIColor redColor

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For iOS 9 users  this worked for me  just add this   UINavigationBar appearance   shadowImage   UIImage

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pxpgraphics  solution updated for Swift 2 0  extension UINavigationBar        func hideBottomHairline                 hairlineImageViewInNavigationBar self   hidden   true            func showBottomHairline                 hairlineImageViewInNavigationBar self   hidden   false            private func hairlineImageViewInNavigationBar view  UIView  - gt  UIImageView                if let imageView   view as  UIImageView where imageView bounds height  lt   1                       return imageView                    for subview  UIView in view subviews                       if let imageView   hairlineImageViewInNavigationBar subview                                return imageView                                  return nil           extension UIToolbar        func hideHairline                 let navigationBarImageView   hairlineImageViewInToolbar self   hidden   true            func showHairline                 let navigationBarImageView   hairlineImageViewInToolbar self   hidden   false            private func hairlineImageViewInToolbar view  UIView  - gt  UIImageView                if let imageView   view as  UIImageView where imageView bounds height  lt   1                       return imageView                    for subview  UIView in view subviews                       if let imageView   hairlineImageViewInToolbar subview                                return imageView                                  return nil

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My approach   UINavigationBar appearance   setBackgroundImage              UIImage                forBarPosition   Any              barMetrics   Default      var  width CGFloat    self navigationController  navigationBar layer frame width             var  height CGFloat    self navigationController  navigationBar layer frame height             var navBarBg   UIView frame CGRectMake 0  0   width   height                 solid color for bg             navBarBg backgroundColor   UIColor orangeColor               view addSubview navBarBg

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- void viewWillAppear  BOOL animated        super viewWillAppear animated        UIImage  emptyImage    UIImage new       self navigationController navigationBar shadowImage   emptyImage       self navigationController navigationBar setBackgroundImage emptyImage forBarMetrics UIBarMetricsDefault

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If you just want to use a solid navigation bar color and have set this up in your storyboard  use this code in your AppDelegate class to remove the 1 pixel border via the appearance proxy     UINavigationBar appearance  setBackgroundImage   UIImage alloc  init                                    forBarPosition UIBarPositionAny                                       barMetrics UIBarMetricsDefault      UINavigationBar appearance  setShadowImage   UIImage alloc  init

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Swift 4 Tested ONE LINE SOLUTION  In Viewdidload   Set Navigation controller s userdefault value true for key  hidesShadow   override func viewDidLoad         super viewDidLoad        self navigationController  navigationBar setValue true  forKey   hidesShadow

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After studying the answer from Serhil  I created a pod UINavigationBar Addition that can easily hide the hairline    import  UINavigationBar Addition h   -  void viewDidLoad        super viewDidLoad        UINavigationBar  navigationBar   self navigationController navigationBar       navigationBar hideBottomHairline

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Simple solution     Swift 5   Create an extension   extension UIImage        class func hideNavBarLine color  UIColor  - gt  UIImage             let rect   CGRect x  0  y  0  width  1  height  1          UIGraphicsBeginImageContext rect size          let context   UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext           context  setFillColor color cgColor          context  fill rect            let navBarLine   UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext           UIGraphicsEndImageContext           return navBarLine          Add this to viewDidLoad            self navigationController  navigationBar shadowImage   UIImage hideNavBarLine color  UIColor clear

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Objective C Answer to Above Question     removing 1px line of navigation bar    UINavigationBar appearance  setBackgroundImage   UIImage alloc init  forBarMetrics UIBarMetricsDefault     UINavigationBar appearance  setShadowImage   UIImage alloc  init      UINavigationBar appearance  setTranslucent NO     UINavigationBar appearance  setTintColor  UIColor yourColor

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if  available iOS 13 0                   let appearance   UINavigationBarAppearance               appearance backgroundColor            Colors color app             appearance titleTextAttributes          foregroundColor   UIColor white              appearance largeTitleTextAttributes     foregroundColor   UIColor white              appearance shadowColor    clear             appearance shadowImage   UIImage                            UINavigationBar appearance   tintColor               white             UINavigationBar appearance   standardAppearance     appearance             UINavigationBar appearance   compactAppearance      appearance             UINavigationBar appearance   scrollEdgeAppearance   appearance           else               UINavigationBar appearance   barTintColor          Colors color app             UINavigationBar appearance   tintColor              white             UINavigationBar appearance   titleTextAttributes    NSAttributedString Key foregroundColor   UIColor white              if  available iOS 11 0                       UINavigationBar appearance   largeTitleTextAttributes    NSAttributedString Key foregroundColor  UIColor white                            UINavigationBar appearance   isTranslucent   false                          UINavigationBar appearance   shadowImage   UIImage               UINavigationBar appearance   setBackgroundImage UIImage    for   default

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Write your own initializer  D import Foundation import UIKit  extension UINavigationController       convenience init rootViewController   UIViewController  hidesShadow   Bool            self init rootViewController   rootViewController          self navigationBar setValue hidesShadow  forKey   quot hidesShadow quot           if hidesShadow               self extendedLayoutIncludesOpaqueBars   true             self navigationBar isTranslucent   false

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Here s another option - I think this only works if you don t require translucency on your nav bar  I didn t    I just added a 1 pixel high UIView to the bottom of the nav bar  1 pixel below the nav bar  with the same colour as my nav bar   UIView  view     UIView alloc  init    view setBackgroundColor self navigationController navigationBar barTintColor    self navigationController navigationBar addSubview view    view mas makeConstraints   MASConstraintMaker  make        make height equalTo   1 0f        make leading trailing equalTo self navigationController navigationBar       make bottom equalTo self navigationController navigationBar  offset 1 0f         I m adding the constraints using Masonry

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Swift 4   for hiding navigation bar shadow line  navigationController  navigationBar shadowImage   UIImage

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Slightly Swift Solution  func setGlobalAppearanceCharacteristics          let navigationBarAppearace   UINavigationBar appearance       navigationBarAppearace tintColor   UIColor white     navigationBarAppearace barTintColor   UIColor blue     navigationBarAppearace setBackgroundImage UIImage    for  UIBarMetrics default      navigationBarAppearace shadowImage   UIImage

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Bar style black did it for me     UINavigationBar appearance  setBarStyle UIBarStyleBlack     All properties that I have  just in case          UINavigationBar appearance  setBarTintColor color         UINavigationBar appearance  setTranslucent NO         UINavigationBar appearance  setShadowImage  UIImage new          UINavigationBar appearance  setBarStyle UIBarStyleBlack

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Here is the hack  Since it works on key path might break in future  But for now it works as expected  Swift  self navigationController  navigationBar setValue true  forKey   quot hidesShadow quot    Objective C   self navigationController navigationBar setValue   YES  forKeyPath   quot hidesShadow quot

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For iOS 13   Use the  shadowColor property     If this property is nil or contains the clear color  the bar displays no shadow   For instance   let navigationBar   navigationController  navigationBar let navigationBarAppearence   UINavigationBarAppearance   navigationBarAppearence shadowColor    clear navigationBar  scrollEdgeAppearance   navigationBarAppearence   For iOS 12 and below   To do this  you should set a custom shadow image  But for the shadow image to be shown you also need to set a custom background image  quote from Apple s documentation      For a custom shadow image to be shown  a custom background image must   also be set with the setBackgroundImage   for   method  If the default   background image is used  then the default shadow image will be used   regardless of the value of this property    So   let navigationBar   navigationController  navigationBar navigationBar setBackgroundImage  imageLiteral resourceName   BarBackground                                                            for   default  navigationBar shadowImage   UIImage     Above is the only  official  way to hide it  Unfortunately  it removes bar s translucency   I don t want background image  just color  You have those options    Solid color  no translucency   navigationBar barTintColor   UIColor redColor   navigationBar isTranslucent   false navigationBar setBackgroundImage UIImage    for   default  navigationBar shadowImage   UIImage    Create small background image filled with color and use it  Use  hacky  method described below  It will also keep bar translucent    How to keep bar translucent   To keep translucency you need another approach  it looks like a hack but works well  The shadow we re trying to remove is a hairline UIImageView somewhere under UINavigationBar  We can find it and hide show it when needed   Instructions below assume you need hairline hidden only in one controller of your UINavigationController hierarchy    Declare instance variable   private var shadowImageView  UIImageView   Add method which finds this shadow  hairline  UIImageView   private func findShadowImage under view  UIView  - gt  UIImageView        if view is UIImageView  amp  amp  view bounds size height  lt   1           return  view as  UIImageView             for subview in view subviews           if let imageView   findShadowImage under  subview                return imageView                     return nil    Add edit viewWillAppear viewWillDisappear methods   override func viewWillAppear   animated  Bool        super viewWillAppear animated       if shadowImageView    nil           shadowImageView   findShadowImage under  navigationController  navigationBar            shadowImageView  isHidden   true    override func viewWillDisappear   animated  Bool        super viewWillDisappear animated       shadowImageView  isHidden   false      The same method should also work for UISearchBar hairline   and  almost  anything else you need to hide     Many thanks to  Leo Natan for the original idea

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Two lines solution that works for me  Try to add this in ViewDidLoad method    navigationController  navigationBar setValue true  forKey   hidesShadow   self extendedLayoutIncludesOpaqueBars   true

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pxpgraphics s answer for Swift 3 0    import Foundation import UIKit  extension UINavigationBar      func hideBottomHairline         let navigationBarImageView   hairlineImageViewInNavigationBar view  self      navigationBarImageView  isHidden   true        func showBottomHairline         let navigationBarImageView   hairlineImageViewInNavigationBar view  self      navigationBarImageView  isHidden   false        private func hairlineImageViewInNavigationBar view  UIView  - gt  UIImageView        if view is UIImageView  amp  amp  view bounds height  lt   1 0         return  view as  UIImageView             let subviews    view subviews as  UIView       for subview  UIView in subviews         if let imageView  UIImageView   hairlineImageViewInNavigationBar view  subview            return imageView                   return nil        extension UIToolbar      func hideHairline         let navigationBarImageView   hairlineImageViewInToolbar view  self      navigationBarImageView  isHidden   true        func showHairline         let navigationBarImageView   hairlineImageViewInToolbar view  self      navigationBarImageView  isHidden   false        private func hairlineImageViewInToolbar view  UIView  - gt  UIImageView        if view is UIImageView  amp  amp  view bounds height  lt   1 0         return  view as  UIImageView             let subviews    view subviews as  UIView       for subview  UIView in subviews         if let imageView  UIImageView   hairlineImageViewInToolbar view  subview            return imageView                   return nil

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tabviewController view setBackgroundColor  UIColor blackColor      Did it for me  UIColor blackColor  might be your background color  and tabviewController is your UITabBarController if you are using it

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Simple solution in swift     let navigationBar   self navigationController  navigationBar     navigationBar  setBackgroundImage UIImage    forBarPosition  UIBarPosition Any  barMetrics  UIBarMetrics Default      navigationBar  shadowImage   UIImage

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In Swift 3 we do this way  For any view controller    navigationBar shadowImage   UIImage   setBackgroundImage UIImage    for   default    For an entire app   UINavigationBar appearance   setBackgroundImage UIImage   barMetrics   Default  UINavigationBar appearance   shadowImage   UIImage

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What worked for me  and was simplest  was to create a png  it only needs to be one pixel by one pixel in dimensions  with the required color and then set the backgroundImage and shadowImage to that   let greenPixel   UIImage named   TheNameOfYourPng   navigationBar setBackgroundImage greenPixel  forBarMetrics  UIBarMetrics Default  navigationBar shadowImage   greenPixel

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Try this     UINavigationBar appearance  setBackgroundImage   UIImage new                                       forBarMetrics  UIBarMetricsDefault     UINavigationBar appearance  shadowImage    UIImage new     Below image has the explanation  iOS7 NavigationBar      And check this SO question  iOS7 - Change UINavigationBar border color

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