Ionic 2 customize back button action

Question

I want to customize the click-action of the back button mentioned in this screen capture. I want that by clicking I do not return to the previous page but to a page that I s

Answer 1

You can try to use ionViewCanLeave or ionViewWillLeave event.

See this issue #9533 with proposal to distinguish leave events for "back" navigation. This can be handy for your use case once implemented.