Storyboard - Hiding top bar of navigation controller programmatically

Question

I\'m using a storyboard and I\'m trying to hide a top bar of my main navigation controller when a certain button is pressed (or function is called). I know I have to initial

Answer 1

Finally solved it. You should always hide navigation bar only through viewController.

In my question above I instantiated a whole new navigationController which didn't point at the real navController on the screen. You can obtain the "real" one through the view controller like this:

[viewController.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:YES];