Setting a Custom Image for a Back Button on UINavigationBar

Question

I am trying to set a custom image for the back button that automatically gets place onto a navigation bar when a new view is pushed onto the stack.

I have tried add

Answer 1

iOS 8+ Swift version (can be converted to ObjC with not much effort). This method preserves all advantages and behaviour of navigation bar related to standard back button (animation on pushing/popping, interactive pop gesture, etc)

// Call the code ONE TIME somewhere on app launch to setup custom back button appearance
UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.blackColor()
// If you need custom positioning for your back button, in this example button will be 1 px up compared to default one
// Also only vertical positioning works, for horizontal add offsets directly to the image
let backImageInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 0, -1, 0)
// Get image, change of rendering (so it preserves offsets made in file), applying offsets
let backImage = UIImage(named: "YourButtonImageAssetFileName")?.imageWithRenderingMode(.AlwaysOriginal).imageWithAlignmentRectInsets(backImageInsets)
// Setting images
UINavigationBar.appearance().backIndicatorImage = backImage
UINavigationBar.appearance().backIndicatorTransitionMaskImage = backImage

// Call EACH TIME BEFORE pushing view controller if you don't need title near your back button arrow
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: "", style: .Plain, target: nil, action: nil)
// Push controller
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(vc, animated: true)

Answer 2

try this code

UIButton *backBtn = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];  
UIImage *backBtnImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"BackBtn.png"]  ;  
[backBtn setBackgroundImage:backBtnImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];  
[backBtn addTarget:self action:@selector(goback) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];  
backBtn.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 54, 30);  
UIBarButtonItem *backButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:backBtn] ;  
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = backButton;

then define goback method like this

- (void)goback
{
    [self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}