How to enable back/left swipe gesture in UINavigationController after setting leftBarButtonItem?

Question

I got the opposite issue from here. By default in iOS7, back swipe gesture of UINavigationController\'s stack could pop the presented ViewCon

Answer 1

We're all working around some old bugs that haven't been fixed likely because it's "by design." I ran into the freezing problem @iwasrobbed described elsewhere when trying to nil the interactivePopGestureRecognizer's delegate which seemed like it should've worked. If you want swipe behavior reconsider using backBarButtonItem which you can customize.

I also ran into interactivePopGestureRecognizer not working when the UINavigationBar is hidden. If hiding the navigation bar is a concern for you, reconsider your design before implementing a workaround for a bug.