UINavigationController Back Button not visible, but works

I have a scenario where my UINavigationController is missing the back button (left button) but tapping the left button still seems to work.

I found a similar problem posted here: UINavigationController's back button disappears? which was resolved by not setting the title to @"", but 开发者_StackOverflowthat's not my problem. Are there any other scenarios that would cause this behaviour?

UPDATE:

In case it matters here is my view hierarchy: My MainWindow contains a UINavigationView which first loads a UIViewController (this view contains a Map). When tapping on an annotation accessory button it then loads a UITableViewController. It's this view that should have the back button.

Thanks.

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Oh Man! Ok, I found the answer in an article on iphonedevsdk.com, now defunct.

It turns out that my first view (the one with the map on it) didn't have a title set (in fact I hide the navigation bar because I didn't want to show it). Even if the title WAS set on a later view the SDK doesn't seem to care. I still don't understand 100% why I could tap in the area to get it to work.

So even though I hide the first navigation bar I still need to set the title of it.

That did it!

Thanks to everyone who tried to help.

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Other than the suggestions provided above. changing the Appearance of Navigation bar can also make Back button invisible.

UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.white

Verify if you are not setting this tint color to something which blend with the background.

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Are you overriding the back button item -- not the same as the left button -- anywhere in your code? i.e.:

self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = ...

Are you setting the hidesBackButton property anywhere? i.e.:

self.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = YES;

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I had a similar (although not exactly the same) situation with a customized back button text was disappearing while the arrow could be seen UINavigationController custom back button disappears from NavigationBar

So if anyone is facing a similar situation with disappearing back button text on a customized back button, here is my scenario and fix.

I customized my back button inside a custom NavigationController class as follows:

private func customizeBackButton() {
    let backImage = UIImage(named: "BackButton")?.withRenderingMode(.alwaysOriginal)
    navigationBar.backIndicatorImage = backImage
    navigationBar.backIndicatorTransitionMaskImage = backImage
    
    UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([
      NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.panoStoryYellow,
      NSAttributedString.Key.font: UIFont(name: "Montserrat-SemiBold", size: 15)!
    ], for: .normal)
}

This gave me:

Now when I tapped on the back button text, the text disappeared:

I made sure that I followed all the above answers such as setting titles making sure the tint color is valid etc. however this did not work.

In my case, I needed to set attributes even for the highlighted state of the back button as follows:

UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([
      NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.panoStoryYellow,
      NSAttributedString.Key.font: UIFont(name: "Montserrat-SemiBold", size: 15)!
], for: .highlighted)

After this, the back button text never disappeared