Changing navigation title programmatically

Question

I have a navigation bar with a title. When I double click the text to rename it, it actually says it\'s a navigation item, so it might be that.

I\'m trying to change

Answer 1

Try the following in viewDidLoad

self.navigationItem.title = "Your Title"

Answer 2

If you have a NavigationController embedded inside of a TabBarController see below:

super.tabBarController?.title = "foobar"

You can debug issues like this with debugger scripts. Try Chisel's pvc command to print every visible / hidden view on the hierarchy.

Answer 3

You change the title by changing the title of the view controller being displayed:

viewController.title = "some title"

Normally this is done in view did load on the view controller:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    self.title = "some title"
}

However, this only works if you have your view controller embedded in a UINavigationController. I highly recommend doing this instead of creating a navigation bar yourself. If you insist on creating a navigation bar yourself, you can change the title by doing:

navigationBar.topItem.title = "some title"

Answer 4

Swift 5.1

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    navigationItem.title = "What ever you want"
}

Answer 5

The code below works for me with Xcode 7:

override func viewDidLoad() {        
    super.viewDidLoad()
    self.navigationItem.title = "Your Title"
}

Answer 6

I prefer using self.navigationItem.title = "Your Title Here" over self.title = "Your Title Here" to provide title in the navigation bar since tab bar also uses self.title to alter its title. You should try the following code once.

Note: calling the super view lifecycle is necessary before you do any stuffs.

class ViewController: UIViewController {
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        setupNavBar()
    }
}

private func setupNavBar() {
    self.navigationItem.title = "Your Title Here"
}