Changing Nav Bar title programmatically

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I'm trying to change my nav bar's title programmatically but the code I'm using won't work.

self.navigationController.navigationBar.tintColor = [UIColor redColor];
self.navigationController.navigationItem.title=@"Hello";

I can manage to change the colour of the bar but not the text.

Martol1ni · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-05 09:58:34Z

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self.navigationController.navigationBar.topItem.title = @"YourTitle";

answered Jun 5, 2012 at 9:58

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mhorgan Over a year ago

This bit of code works the exact same as Mudit's but it's shorter. Just place it in viewWillAppear and it's perfect

Pruthvid Over a year ago

I have both navbar and tabbar and when i was trying to edit nav title programatically either with self.navigationItem.title or self.navigationcontroller.title or self.title, it was changing values in both navbar title and first tab on tabbar. This line does change only nav bar.Just for future reference for people who have same problems :)

Nim Thitipariwat · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-05 10:24:40Z

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or self.navigationItem.title = @"Title";

answered Jun 5, 2012 at 10:24

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Mudit Bajpai · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-05 10:00:52Z

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First check the index of current controller on the navigation stack through

 NSLog(@"%@", self.navigationController.viewControllers );

after finding the index of current ViewController let say 1.

UINavigationController *navCon  = (UINavigationController*) [self.navigationController.viewControllers objectAtIndex:1];
    navCon.navigationItem.title = @"Hello";

answered Jun 5, 2012 at 10:00

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mhorgan Over a year ago

Thanks, That managed to set the title for the nav bar, but rather than setting the title for just the one page, I'd like it to have a different title for each tab. I've tried using the above fix on two different tabs, but whatever tab I click last, changes the nav bar title to that permanently. So even if I load my other tab, the title doesn't change. Any idea how to fix that?

Mudit Bajpai Over a year ago

in viewWillAppear of that controller you can apply the same process.

Mudit Bajpai Over a year ago

I m not genious,actually i have faced the same problem in my previous project,that's y i have d solution...

Sarp Kaya Over a year ago

I am getting null for this

Sameera R. · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-11 10:04:23Z

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You can use built in method setTitle now in XCode

[self setTitle:@"title"]
or
self.title=@"title"

inside its viewController.

edited Jan 11, 2016 at 10:04

answered Jun 26, 2015 at 3:03

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Charitha Goonewardena Over a year ago

ah aththada :D maru ahh

apinho · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-11 09:54:12Z

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For swift 2.2

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

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jlink · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-05 09:53:40Z

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Try with this :

[navigationController setTitle:@"Title"];

answered Jun 5, 2012 at 9:53

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mylogon Over a year ago

Not a great example as navigationController is probably an instance variable that is not being shared here.

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