Question

I have a UINavigationBar with two different screens.
On both screens the NavigationBar has the same title.
So the BackButton should have just Back as text instead of the NavigationBar’s title.

If I set the parents ViewController title to nil I have a backButton with the text Back, which gets localized automatically by iOS.

I know I can set the text to back as described in this question: How to set the text of a back button on a UINavigationBar?
However, then the Back is hardcoded and wont get translated by iOS automatically.

I don’t want to maintain the localizations by myself in the Localizable.strings but rather use the predefined values from iOS.

I would like to always have a title on my NavigationBar and a backButton which says Back and gets localized automatically using the by iOS defined values.

Does somebody know if and how such an behavior could be achieved?

Answer 1

As far as I know you cannot force that behavior. One way of getting around it would be by adding the title to the navigation bar with a, say, UITextView:

[self.navigationItem setTitleView:myUITextView]