Question

When I push a new ViewController onto a navigation controller stack the “back” button is the Title of the previous controller.

How can I change the text in the back button to “Back” instead of the default name-of-last-controller?

Answer 1

You can actually set the title on the main view controller’s navigationItem‘s title. Basically each UIViewController has a little stub UINavigationItem which contains metadata about how that view should be referenced inside a UINavigationController. By default, that metadata just falls back to the UIViewController itself.

Assuming ‘self’ is the UIViewController of the view that’s visible inside the UINavigationController, set:

self.navigationItem.title = @"My Custom Title"