Hiding my backbutton in Objective C

Question

I am running to a new viewcontroller and am trying to remove the back button completely. Here is what I am doing:

/* HIDE BACK BUTTON ON NAVIGATiON */
    self.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = YES;
    //<!-- Make sure navigation bar shows
    self.navigationController.navigationBar.hidden = NO;

Now when I run this inside the ViewController viewdidload() of the current active controller it disabled the back button but the text back does not go away. Before that I use a [self performSegueWithIdentifier:@"pushToHomePage" sender:self]; to send it to the current ViewController that I am trying to remove the back button from.

Suggestions, thoughts?

Where are you making this call? Have you checked to make sure navigationItem exists when this is called? I'm calling this from -viewDidLoad with success. As well in other places after the view has been presented. — Dave Batton, Jan 13 '15 at 20:29
@DaveBatton I make this call within `- (void)viewDidLoad` of the newely pushed viewcontroller that I want to remove the back button from. — David Biga, Jan 13 '15 at 20:31
If you don't want a back button, you probably shouldn't be using UINavigationController. Are you planning to disable the swipe-back gesture as well? Try using modals instead. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14907518/modal-view-controllers-how-to-display-and-dismiss — Neal Ehardt, Jan 13 '15 at 22:13

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 13 '15 at 23:41

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For my experience, try to set to it to nil as well:

self.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = YES;
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = nil;

Let me know ;)

answered Jan 13 '15 at 23:41

Matteo Gobbi

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 15 '15 at 00:19

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Yes, the answer below by @MatteoGobbi is correct after validating in Xcode:

self.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = YES;
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = nil;

answered Jan 15 '15 at 00:19

Xiaojun

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Hiding my backbutton in Objective C

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