Xcode 11.4. Navigation's Title Color gone BLACK from storyboard

Question

I recently updated my Xcode to 11.4. When I run the app on the device, i\'ve noticed that all my navigations item\'s titles gone fully black when being set from storyboard.

Answer 1

Not sure if it's a bug or not.

The way we fixed it is by setting the "Status Bar Style" to either dark or light content in project setting. This will force the Status Bar text color a certain way rather than being determined based on the devices being in Light or Dark mode.

In addition, you need to set the value "View controller-based status bar appearance" to "NO" in your Info.plist. without that value the "Status Bar style" will be overridden.

Next create a custom navigation controller and implement it in your storyboards.

class CustomNavigationController: UINavigationController {

 override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    setNavBar()
 }

 func setNavBar() {
    if #available(iOS 13.0, *) {
        let appearance = UINavigationBarAppearance()
        appearance.configureWithOpaqueBackground()
        appearance.backgroundColor = UIColor.blue
        appearance.titleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: UIColor.yellow]
        self.navigationBar.standardAppearance = appearance
        self.navigationBar.scrollEdgeAppearance = appearance
        self.navigationBar.compactAppearance = appearance
    } else {
        self.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.blue
        self.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: UIColor.yellow]
    }
  }
}

*Colors are set so you can see them clearly working.

I found it was better to set the code in ViewDidLoad rather than ViewDidAppear because my colors were not being set on the initial load, only after navigating back and reloading.

I also found that this issue might be tied to the "Bar Tint" of a NavBar. when we were first trying to resolve it, we set the "Bar Tint" to default and that seemed resolve the error too. However, it made it so we couldn't get the NavBar background color what we wanted. So in my storyboards I made sure to set this value to default just for good measure.

Hope it helps