How to change the title of the UINavigationBar back button to “Back”

10
votes

When I push a view onto the navigation controller the back button's title get's set to the title of the previous view. How can I get the back button to just say "Back"?

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Worth mentioning that the iOS Human Interface Guidelines specify that the back button "should be labeled with the previous level's title" in order to help orientate your Users: developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/… – cleverbit

2 Answers

30
votes

Write this code in your viewwillappear:

UIBarButtonItem *_backButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Back" style:UIBarButtonItemStyleDone target:nil action:nil];
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = _backButton;
[_backButton release];
_backButton = nil;
3
votes

In the previous view controller, have it set its title in viewWillAppear, and then in the code that pushes the new view controller, have it change its title to 'Back.'

Example:

-(void)showNextScreen{
     [self setTitle:@"Back"]; 
     [self.navigationController pushViewController:asdf animated:YES];
}
-(void)viewWillAppear{
     [super viewWillAppear];
     [self setTitle:@"My Actual Title"];
}