How to set back button text in Swift

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How do you remove the back button text   Current back button       lt  Back   Desired back button       lt  AnythingElse   None of these have worked   self navigationItem backBarButtonItem  title    Back  self backItem  title      self navigationController  navigationBar backItem  title      self navigationItem backBarButtonItem  title      self navigationController  navigationItem backBarButtonItem  title  Back  self navigationController  navigationBar backItem  title      self navigationController  navigationItem backBarButtonItem  title

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GOTCHA  If you are having trouble with any of the many-starred suggestions  ensure that you are registering your UITableViewCells in viewDidLoad    not from init

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If you are pushing a view controller from page view controller page  you cannot update the navigation controller s back button title   To solve this create a delegate back to your parent view controller  you may also be able to traverse the view controller hierarchy back up to the parent     Furthermore  Back buttons have a character limit   If you exceed that character limit  the system will default to  Back    It will not truncate for you   For example   backItem title    Birthdays Anniversaries     Get s converted to  Back   backItem title    Birthdays Anniversa        Fits and shows as is

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Swift 4  While the previous saying to prepare for segue is correct and its true the back button belongs to the previous VC  its just adding a bunch more unnecessary code   The best thing to do is set the title of the current VC in viewDidLoad and it ll automatically set the back button title correctly on the next VC  This line worked for me  navigationController  navigationBar topItem  title    Title

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The back button belongs to the previous view controller  not the one currently presented on screen  To modify the back button you should update it before pushing  add viewdidload    Swift 4   self navigationItem backBarButtonItem   UIBarButtonItem title      style   plain  target  self  action  nil

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swift 4 there is one of way to change text in backButton programmatically from current viewController  navigationController  navigationBar items  0  title    quot some new text quot

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This works for Swift 5   self navigationItem backBarButtonItem  title        Please note it will be effective for the next pushed view controller not the current one on the display  that s why it s very confusing    Also  check the storyboard and select the navigation item of the previous view controller then type something in the Back Button  Inspector

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override func viewWillAppear   animated  Bool         self tabBarController  navigationItem title    Notes       let sendButton   UIBarButtonItem title   New   style   plain  target  self  action   selector goToNoteEditorViewController        self tabBarController  navigationItem rightBarButtonItem   sendButton    func goToNoteEditorViewController          action what you want     Hope it helps    swift 3

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Try this    it will work       override func prepare for segue  UIStoryboardSegue  sender  Any         self title          The above code will hide the text and show only the back arrow on navigation bar

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There are two ways   1 In the previousViewController viewDidLoad    let backBarBtnItem   UIBarButtonItem   backBarBtnItem title    back  navigationItem backBarButtonItem   backBarBtnItem   2 In the currentViewController viewDidAppear    let backBarBtnItem   UIBarButtonItem   backBarBtnItem title    back        navigationController  navigationBar backItem  backBarButtonItem   backBarBtnItem   Reason   the backButton comes from navigationBar backItem backBarButtonItem so the first way is obvious In currentViewController viewDidLoad   we can t obtain the reference of backItem because in viewDidAppear   the navigationBar pushed navigationView on its stack so we can make changes to the backItem in currentViewController viewDidAppear     For more details you can see Document UINavigationBar

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Swift 4 - Configure the back button before pushing any view controllers     if you want to remove the text navigationItem backBarButtonItem   UIBarButtonItem       if you want to modify the text to  back  navigationItem backBarButtonItem   UIBarButtonItem title   back   style   plain  target  nil  action  nil

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Swift 4  In my case the solution was to clear the navigation item of the Master View Controller before move to the Child View Controller  And set it again if it is shown again  MasterController  override func viewWillAppear   animated  Bool        super viewWillAppear animated      navigationItem title    Master Title     override func viewWillDisappear   animated  Bool        super viewWillDisappear animated      navigationItem title          And this is how I push a UIViewController and clear the back bar button item in the child controller   MasterController  let childController   ChildController collectionViewLayout  UICollectionViewFlowLayout    childController navigationItem backBarButtonItem  title      navigationController  pushViewController childController  animated  true

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If you are using xib file for view controller then do this in your view controller class   class AboutUsViewController  UIViewController    override func viewDidLoad         super viewDidLoad       edgesForExtendedLayout          setUpNavBar      func setUpNavBar          For title in navigation bar     self navigationController  view backgroundColor   UIColor white     self navigationController  view tintColor   UIColor orange     self navigationItem title    About Us         For back button in navigation bar     let backButton   UIBarButtonItem       backButton title    Back      self navigationController  navigationBar topItem  backBarButtonItem   backButton        The result will be

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I do not know where you have used your methods that you put on your question but I could get the desired result if I use  on my ViewController class  in which I want to change the back button   on viewDidLoad   function  the following line   self navigationController  navigationBar backItem  title    Anything Else    The result will be   Before    After

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Swift 4 2  If you want to change the navigation bar back button item text  put this in viewDidLoad of the controller BEFORE the one where the back button shows  NOT on the view controller where the back button is visible    let backButton   UIBarButtonItem    backButton title    New Back Button Text   self navigationController  navigationBar topItem  backBarButtonItem   backButton   If you want to change the current navigation bar title text use the code below  note that this becomes the default back text for the NEXT view pushed onto the navigation controller  but this default back text can be overridden by the code above    self title    Navigation Bar Title

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Solution checked and work in Swift 5  Below I put few solutions for different cases   1  Remove text from back button  The best solution to remove text from back button is to add in viewDidLoad     navigationItem backBarButtonItem   UIBarButtonItem     2  Set own text on back button  In case you want to set your own title  do it by setting title of backButton   let backButton   UIBarButtonItem   backButton title    My Title  navigationItem backBarButtonItem   backItem   3  Empty back button on all VC  If you want to create common style in entire app - to have just arrow back without text  create base VC for all your View Controllers   class BaseViewController  UIViewController       override func viewDidLoad             super viewDidLoad            navigationItem backBarButtonItem   UIBarButtonItem             Solution presented above let you customize back button in the future if you want to make some exception later  by adding additional variable and overriding it in specific ViewController  f ex   class BaseViewController  UIViewController        var customBackButtonTitle  String       override func viewDidLoad             super viewDidLoad            var backButton   UIBarButtonItem           if let text   customBackButtonTitle               backButton title   text                   navigationItem backBarButtonItem   backButton

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In the viewDidLoad method of the presenting controller add      hide navigation bar title in the next controller let backButton   UIBarButtonItem title      style  Plain  target  nil  action  nil  navigationItem backBarButtonItem   backButton

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You can do it from interface builder as follows   click on the navigation item of previous view controller    from the attributes inspector set the back button text to whatever you want  Thats it

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Set self title      before self navigationController  pushViewController vc  animated  true

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although these answers fix the problem but this could be some useful   class MainNavigatioController  UINavigationController        override func pushViewController   viewController  UIViewController  animated  Bool               first         let backItem   UIBarButtonItem           backItem title                  self viewControllers last  navigationItem backBarButtonItem   backItem            then         super pushViewController viewController  animated  animated

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for Swift 4 2  let backItem   UIBarButtonItem   backItem title      navigationItem backBarButtonItem   backItem

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You can put this 3 line of code in the ViewController you want to change the back button title   In your override func viewDidLoad        let backButton   UIBarButtonItem   backButton title    My Back Button Title  self navigationController  navigationBar topItem  backBarButtonItem   backButton

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The back button belongs to the previous view controller  not the one currently presented on screen  To modify the back button you should update it before pushing  on the view controller that initiated the segue   override func prepareForSegue segue  UIStoryboardSegue  sender  AnyObject         let backItem   UIBarButtonItem       backItem title    Something Else      navigationItem backBarButtonItem   backItem    This will show in the next view controller being pushed     Swift 3  4  amp  5   override func prepare for segue  UIStoryboardSegue  sender  Any         let backItem   UIBarButtonItem       backItem title    Something Else      navigationItem backBarButtonItem   backItem    This will show in the next view controller being pushed     OR     in your viewDidLoad or viewWillAppear navigationItem backBarButtonItem   UIBarButtonItem      title   Something Else   style   plain  target  nil  action  nil

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This should work   override func viewDidLoad         super viewDidLoad        var button   UIBarButtonItem title   YourTitle   style  UIBarButtonItemStyle Bordered  target  self  action   goBack       self navigationItem backBarButtonItem   button     func goBack         self navigationController  popViewControllerAnimated true      Although it is not recommended since this actually replaces the backButton and it also removed the back arrow and the swipe gesture

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You can just modify the NavigationItem in the storyboard    In the Back Button add a space and press Enter      Note  Do this in the previous VC

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Back-button text is taken from parent view-controller s navigation item title  So whatever you set on previous view-controller s navigation item title  will be shown on current view controller s back button text   You can just put    as navigation item title in parent view-controller s viewWillAppear method   self navigationItem title        Another way is to put   self navigationController  navigationBar topItem  title        in current view controller s viewWillAppear method  This one will cause some other problem if navigation stack is too nested

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