UINavigation back bar button

Question

I have a UITableViewController as the root view controller of a UINavigationController.

When the app launches, there is no back bar button on the navigation bar. However, when I click on one of the table view cells, and then click back, a back bar button appears at the top of the original UITableViewController. I don't want this. How can I get rid of this?

Answer 1

On any view controllers that you don't want the back button to show, you can add this to the viewDidLoad method:

[self.navigationItem setHidesBackButton:YES animated:NO];

Alternatively, you can add this call in viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated: if you want the change to be animated:

[self.navigationItem setHidesBackButton:YES animated:animated];

Answer 2

When your application opens up, the UITableViewController doesn't show a Back button because there is nothing to go back to. That's the Initial View Controller.

As for the second UIViewController that pushes on top of the previous UITableViewController - if you don't want the Back button in that - use a Modal transfer and not a Push transfer.

Apple's Navigation Controller simply functions like that. It works like a stack. One UIViewController gets pushed on the current one.

However, if you still want a Navigation Bar on top of the Modal segue UIViewController you can manually add it in the Interface Builder :

And then you can add a UIBarButton to the Navigation Bar.

But if you are still adamant on simply hiding the Back button, then use this method :

Put this in the viewDidLoad method of your UIViewController class's implementation :

[self.viewController setHidesBackButton:YES animated:NO];