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Find out if user pressed the back button in uinavigationcontroller?

I want to play a sound when the user taps on the left-side button of a UINavigationController (the “back” button).

How can I detect this?

Answer 1

Another simple way is to implement your sound in the viewWillDisappear():

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated {

//play my sound here

}

Or a more robust method, to ensure the sound only plays when the back button is pressed (in the case you have other ways the view may be popped from the navigation stack) is to subclass the UINavigationController and put in a custom action method for your back button. This page gives you an example of how to do this.

The example basically subclasses UINavigationController and over-rides the

- (UIViewController *)popViewControllerAnimated:(BOOL)animated 

method which is called when the back button is pressed.