Changing the UIBackButtonItem title

Question

I have a navigationController-based app. I want to change the title of the back button for the root view controller. I have tried the following code in the rootViewControlle

Answer 1

You can't simply change the title of the back button in the root view controller because the root view controller is not displaying a back button. It is the root after all, what can you go back to? While there might be something logical in your app, there is nothing obvious the default implementation should do.

You can place a custom button there instead of you really want want a control there (make a UIBarButtonItem and set navigationItem.backBarButtonItem to it), though that will not have the same appearance as one of the default ones (it will be a square, as opposed to an arrow).