How to hide the “back” button in UINavigationController?

Question

Do you know how to hide the \'back\' button in a UINavigationController? Also, how to show it back, but I guess that\'s very similar to hiding it...

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Answer 1

Just to clarify existing answers: the hidesBackButton property is the right answer, but it isn't clear in many answers what self refers to. Basically you should set self.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = YES in the view controller that is about to get pushed (or just got pushed) onto the UINavigationController.

In other words, say I have a UINavigationController named myNavController. I want to put a new view on it, and when I do I don't want the back button to show anymore. I could do something like:

UIViewController *newVC = [[UIViewController alloc] init];
//presumably would do some stuff here to set up the new view controller
newVC.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = YES;
[myNavController pushViewController:newVC animated:YES];

When the code finishes, the view controlled by newVC should now be showing, and no back button should be visible.