Question

Right now I have a TableViewController, let’s say with a title “Main Menu” and when you click the first cell it leads to a detail view controller with a back button. Instead of just having “back, it has the title of the TableViewController which is “Main Menu”

How do I set it so that it just says “Back”?

Answer 1

This can actually be done very easily using the setTitle attribute of the navigation items backBarButtonItem. The only thing about this that isn’t really very intuitive is that you have to set these attributes on the parent view controller (the one you’re pushing from). This can be done either programmatically or in interface builder.

[[[self navigationItem] backBarButtonItem] setTitle:@"Back"];