Can't change UINavigationBar prompt color

Question

I am unable to change the prompt color on my navigation bar. I\'ve tried the code below in viewDidLoad, but nothing happens.

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Answer 1

I've found next work around for iOS 11. You need set at viewDidLoad navigationItem.prompt = UINavigationController.fakeUniqueText and after that put next thing

    navigationController?.promptLabel(completion: { label in
    label?.textColor = .white
    label?.font = Font.regularFont(size: .p12)
        })

    extension UINavigationController {
    public static let fakeUniqueText = "\n\n\n\n\n"
    func promptLabel(completion: @escaping (UILabel?) -> Void) {
        gloabalThread(after: 0.5) { [weak self] in
            guard let `self` = self else {
                return
            }
            let label = self.findPromptLabel(at: self.navigationBar)
            mainThread {
                completion(label)
            }
        }
    }

    func findPromptLabel(at view: UIView) -> UILabel? {
        if let label = view as? UILabel {
            if label.text == UINavigationController.fakeUniqueText {
                return label
            }
        }
        var label: UILabel?
        view.subviews.forEach { subview in
            if let promptLabel = findPromptLabel(at: subview) {
                label = promptLabel
            }
        }
        return label
    }
    }


    public func mainThread(_ completion: @escaping SimpleCompletion) {
        DispatchQueue.main.async(execute: completion)
    }


    public func gloabalThread(after: Double, completion: @escaping SimpleCompletion) {
       DispatchQueue.global().asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + after) {
       completion()
    }
}

Answer 2

I suggest using a custom UINavigationBar subclass and overriding layoutSubviews:

- (void)layoutSubviews {
    [super layoutSubviews];

    if (self.topItem.prompt) {
        UILabel *promptLabel = [[self recursiveSubviewsOfKind:UILabel.class] selectFirstObjectUsingBlock:^BOOL(UILabel *label) {
            return [label.text isEqualToString:self.topItem.prompt];
        }];
        promptLabel.textColor = self.tintColor;
    }
}

Basically I'm enumerating all UILabels in the subview hierarchy and check if their text matches the prompt text. Then we set the textColor to the tintColor (feel free to use a custom color). That way, we don't have to hardcode the private _UINavigationBarModernPromptView class as the prompt label's superview. So the code is be a bit more future-proof.

Converting the code to Swift and implementing the helper methods recursiveSubviewsOfKind: and selectFirstObjectUsingBlock: are left as an exercise to the reader

Answer 3

Try this out:->

navController.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor.rawValue: UIColor.red]

Answer 4

You may use

for view in self.navigationController?.navigationBar.subviews ?? [] {
    let subviews = view.subviews
    if subviews.count > 0, let label = subviews[0] as? UILabel {
        label.textColor = UIColor.white
        label.backgroundColor = UIColor.red
    }
}

It will be a temporary workaround until they'll fix it

Answer 5

I was able to make the prompt color white on iOS 11 was setting the barStyle to black. I set the other color attributes (like the desired background color) using the appearance proxy:

myNavbar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlack; // Objective-C
myNavbar.barStyle = .black // Swift

Answer 6

Moshe's first answer didn't work for me because it changed the labels inside of system VCs like mail and text compose VCs. I could change the background of those nav bars but that opens up a whole other can of worms. I didn't want to go the private class route so I only changed UILabels contained inside of my custom navigation bar subclass.

UILabel.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [NavigationBar.self]).textColor = UIColor.white