Remove text from Back button keeping the icon

Question

I want to remove the text from the back button, but I want to keep the icon. I have tried

let backButton = UIBarButtonItem(title: \"\", style: UIBarButtonIt         


        

Answer 1

For Swift 4+ put these lines into AppDelegate at didFinishLaunchingWithOptions

let BarButtonItemAppearance = UIBarButtonItem.appearance()

BarButtonItemAppearance.setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.clear], for: .normal)      
BarButtonItemAppearance.setBackButtonTitlePositionAdjustment(UIOffsetMake(-200, 0), for:UIBarMetrics.default)

Answer 2

I know this already has an answer, but you can also do it in code (in case you're working with nibs)

navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: "", style: .plain, target: nil, action: nil)

Add the above in the first view controller.

Note that you need to do this for each view controller that is pushing. So if you have 3 view controllers, and you want to remove the back text from all of them, you'll have to add the line in view controller 1 and 2.

Answer 3

If you want back arrow so following code put into AppDelegate file into didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method.

For Swift

let BarButtonItemAppearance = UIBarButtonItem.appearance()
BarButtonItemAppearance.setTitleTextAttributes([.foregroundColor: UIColor.clear], for: .normal)

Answer 4

This is working for me

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    navigationController?.navigationBar.topItem?.backBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: "", style: .plain, target: nil, action: nil)
}

Answer 5

One alternative to override all ViewControllers for me was to extend UINavigationController and set the backBarButtonItem of the topViewController.

Swift 5 on Xcode 11.2.1:

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

        let backButton = UIBarButtonItem(title: " ", style: .plain, target: nil, action: nil)
        self.topViewController?.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = backButton
    }
}

Answer 6

in swift 4

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.topItem?.title = ""