iOS 7 UIBarButton back button arrow color

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I m trying to change the back button arrow     I m currently using the following to control the text size as well as the text color on the back button     UIBarButtonItem appearance  setTitleTextAttributes     NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys       UIColor whiteColor   UITextAttributeTextColor       UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize 16 0f   UITextAttributeFont       UIColor darkGrayColor   UITextAttributeTextShadowColor       NSValue valueWithCGSize CGSizeMake 0 0  -1 0    UITextAttributeTextShadowOffset    nil  forState UIControlStateNormal     but if I want to change only the arrow s color for the back button  what should i do

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Swift 2 0  Coloring Navigation Bar  amp  buttons  navigationController  navigationBar barTintColor   UIColor blueColor   navigationController  navigationBar tintColor   UIColor whiteColor   navigationController  navigationBar titleTextAttributes    NSForegroundColorAttributeName  UIColor whiteColor

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If you are using storyboards you could set the navigation bar tint colour

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To change the back button chevron color for a specific navigation controller    self navigationController navigationBar tintColor    UIColor whiteColor      If you are using an app with more than 1 navigation controller  and you want this chevron color to apply to each  you may want to use the appearance proxy to set the back button chevron for every navigation controller  as follows     UINavigationBar appearance  setTintColor  UIColor whiteColor      And for good measure  in swift  thanks to Jay Mayu in the comments    UINavigationBar appearance   tintColor   UIColor whiteColor

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Inside the rootViewController that initializes the navigationController  I put this code inside my viewDidAppear method     set back button color   UIBarButtonItem appearanceWhenContainedIn  UINavigationBar class   nil  setTitleTextAttributes  NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys  UIColor whiteColor   UITextAttributeTextColor nil  forState UIControlStateNormal     set back button arrow color  self navigationController navigationBar setTintColor  UIColor whiteColor

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You can set the tintColor property on the button  or bar button item  or the view controller s view  By default  the property will inherit the tint from the parent view  all the way up to the top level UIWindow of your app

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If you want to change only the Back Arrow BUT on the entire app  do this     NSClassFromString    UINavigationBarBackIndicatorView   appearance     setTintColor  UIColor colorWithHexString     f00000

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In swift 3   to change UIBarButton back button arrow color  self navigationController  navigationBar tintColor   UIColor black

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It is possible to change only arrow s color  not back button title s color  on this way     self navigationController navigationBar subviews lastObject  setTintColor  UIColor blackColor      Navigation bar contains subview of  UINavigationBarBackIndicatorView type  last item in subviews array  which represents arrow   Result is navigation bar with different colors of back button arrow and back button title

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Update Swift 3  navigationController  navigationItem rightBarButtonItem  tintColor   UIColor yellow navigationController  navigationBar tintColor   UIColor red navigationController  navigationBar barTintColor   UIColor gray navigationController  navigationBar titleTextAttributes     NSForegroundColorAttributeName  UIColor blue    Result

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In iOS 7  you can put the following line of code inside application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions  in your AppDelegate m file     UINavigationBar appearance  setTintColor myColor     Set myColor to the color you want the back button to be throughout the entire app  No need to put it in every file

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In case you re making custom back button basing on UIButton  with image of arrow  here is the subclass snippet  Using it you can either create button in code or just assign class in Interface Builder to any UIButton   Back Arrow Image will be added automatically and colored with text color    interface UIImage  TintColor   -  UIImage   imageWithOverlayColor  UIColor   color    end    implementation UIImage  TintColor   -  UIImage   imageWithOverlayColor  UIColor   color       CGRect rect   CGRectMake 0 0f  0 0f  self size width  self size height        if  UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions            CGFloat imageScale   1 0f          if   self respondsToSelector  selector scale                imageScale   self scale          UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions self size  NO  imageScale             else           UIGraphicsBeginImageContext self size               self drawInRect rect        CGContextRef context   UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext        CGContextSetBlendMode context  kCGBlendModeSourceIn        CGContextSetFillColorWithColor context  color CGColor       CGContextFillRect context  rect        UIImage  image   UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext        UIGraphicsEndImageContext         return image      end      import  iOS7backButton h    implementation iOS7BackButton  - void awakeFromNib        super awakeFromNib        BOOL is6     UIDevice currentDevice  systemVersion  floatValue   lt 7       UIImage  backBtnImage     UIImage imageNamed   backArrow   imageWithOverlayColor self titleLabel textColor        self setImage backBtnImage forState UIControlStateNormal        self setTitleEdgeInsets UIEdgeInsetsMake 0  5  0  0         self setImageEdgeInsets UIEdgeInsetsMake 0  is6 0 -10  0  0             UIButton   buttonWithTitle  NSString  btnTitle andTintColor  UIColor  color       BOOL is6     UIDevice currentDevice  systemVersion  floatValue   lt 7       UIButton  backBtn   UIButton alloc  initWithFrame CGRectMake 0  0  60  30        UIImage  backBtnImage     UIImage imageNamed   backArrow   imageWithOverlayColor color        backBtn setImage backBtnImage forState UIControlStateNormal        backBtn setTitleEdgeInsets UIEdgeInsetsMake 0  is6 5 -5  0  0         backBtn setImageEdgeInsets UIEdgeInsetsMake 0  is6 0 -10  0  0         backBtn setTitle btnTitle forState UIControlStateNormal        backBtn setTitleColor color    007aff   forState UIControlStateNormal        return backBtn      end

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In iOS 6  tintColor tinted the background of navigation bars  tab bars  toolbars  search bars  and scope bars  To tint a bar background in iOS 7  use the barTintColor property instead   iOS 7 Design Resources   iOS 7 UI Transition Guide

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I had to use both     UIBarButtonItem appearanceWhenContainedIn  UINavigationBar class   nil                        setTitleTextAttributes  NSDictionary                 dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys  UIColor whiteColor   UITextAttributeTextColor nil                                      forState UIControlStateNormal      self navigationController navigationBar subviews lastObject  setTintColor  UIColor whiteColor      And works for me  thank you for everyone

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You have to set the tintColor of the entire app   self window tintColor    UIColor redColor     Or in Swift 3   self window  tintColor   UIColor blue   Source  iOS 7 UI Transition Guide

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You can set the color on the entire app navigation s bar using the method  -  BOOL application  UIApplication   application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions   NSDictionary   launchOptions        UINavigationBar appearance  setTintColor  UIColor whiteColor

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UINavigationBar  nbar   self navigationController navigationBar   if  floor NSFoundationVersionNumber   gt  NSFoundationVersionNumber iOS 6 1         iOS 7    nbar barTintColor    UIColor blueColor      bar color      or custom color        UIColor colorWithRed 19 0 255 0 green 86 0 255 0 blue 138 0 255 0 alpha 1       nbar navigationBar translucent   NO      nbar tintColor    UIColor blueColor     bar button item color    else        ios 4 5 6    nbar tintColor    UIColor whiteColor        or custom color       UIColor colorWithRed 19 0 255 0 green 86 0 255 0 blue 138 0 255 0 alpha 1

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Just to change the NavigationBar color you can set the tint color like below     UINavigationBar appearance  setTintColor  UIColor whiteColor

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