iOS 7 Navigation Bar text and arrow color

Asked 26/9, 2013 at 13:35 Answered 29/2, 2020 at 10:24

Solved iphone ios objective-c uinavigationbar ios7

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I want to set background for Navigation Bar to be black and all colors inside it to be white.

So, I used this code :

[[UINavigationBar appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:
     [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
      [UIColor whiteColor],
      NSForegroundColorAttributeName,
      [UIColor whiteColor],
      NSForegroundColorAttributeName,
      [NSValue valueWithUIOffset:UIOffsetMake(0, -1)],
      NSForegroundColorAttributeName,
      [UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial-Bold" size:0.0],
      NSFontAttributeName,
      nil]];

But back button text color, arrow and bar button have still default blue color.
How to change those colors like on image below?

Dissect answered 26/9, 2013 at 13:35 Comment(6)

try in AppDelegate if ([self.window respondsToSelector:@selector(setTintColor:)]) self.window.tintColor = [UIColor whiteColor]; – Calf 26/9, 2013 at 13:41

#18384988 – Formulate 4/1, 2014 at 3:45

Interestingly your code worked great for me (just wanted to change the text color to white). Thanks! – Warrenwarrener 14/9, 2014 at 19:3

What is the blue color you are using? Looks nice! – Avunculate 20/5, 2015 at 19:14

@Avunculate some people don't like sharing. Just user a colour picker to pick it out. Or....there you go: RGB:(18, 60, 133) – Frigid 17/7, 2015 at 7:6

Thanks, but the color on your screen is not the same as what is actually used in the code or displayed on a device. For example, my screen shows RGB(20, 71, 140) using the same image. – Avunculate 17/7, 2015 at 15:1

754

Behavior from some of the properties of UINavigationBar has changed from iOS 7. You can see in the image shown below :

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Two beautiful links I'd like to share with you. For more details you can go through these links :

Apple Documentation for barTintColor says :

This color is made translucent by default unless you set the translucent property to NO.

Sample Code :

self.navigationController.navigationBar.barTintColor = [UIColor blackColor];
self.navigationController.navigationBar.tintColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar 
 setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor whiteColor]}];
self.navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = NO;

Confide answered 26/9, 2013 at 13:41 Comment(8)

I have tried: self.nav.navigationBar.tintColor = [UIColor whiteColor]; self.nav.navigationBar.barTintColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:6.0/255.0 green:12.0/255.0 blue:19.0/255.0 alpha:1.0]; But everything is still blue. – Dissect 26/9, 2013 at 13:50

I read it before but this change only text but not and arrow. It's still blue :( – Dissect 26/9, 2013 at 14:4

@Dissect : Take a look at : Using Tint Color – Confide 26/9, 2013 at 14:18

Thanks, this is great! One question: is it possible to set the size (of the text and arrow) of the back button? The default is obnoxiously big next to the bar title. – Neodymium 10/10, 2013 at 19:32

How to change font of titleTextAttribute – Splint 23/6, 2014 at 15:11

@Chelsea: How about this line? :

[self.navigationController.navigationBar setTitleTextAttributes:@{[UIFont fontWithName:@"YOURFONT" size:14], NSFontAttributeName}];

– Confide 24/6, 2014 at 5:38

Thanks, and also by UIAppearance Protocol using [[UINavigationBar appearance]setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor whiteColor]}]; – Uterus 10/9, 2014 at 11:43

Don't forget you can change the tint for the entire app in the appDelegate: [[UINavigationBar appearance] setTintColor:[UIColor blackColor]]; – Limner 8/7, 2015 at 11:27

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This one took me about half a day to figure out but this is what worked for me. Inside the rootViewController that initializes the navigationController, I put this code inside my viewDidAppear method:

//set bar color
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBarTintColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:85.0/255.0 green:143.0/255.0 blue:220.0/255.0 alpha:1.0]];
//optional, i don't want my bar to be translucent
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setTranslucent:NO];
//set title and title color
[self.navigationItem setTitle:@"Title"];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:[UIColor whiteColor] forKey:UITextAttributeTextColor]];
//set back button color
[[UIBarButtonItem appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UINavigationBar class], nil] setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIColor whiteColor], UITextAttributeTextColor,nil] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
//set back button arrow color
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setTintColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];

My full post on this here

Intentional answered 3/10, 2013 at 13:48 Comment(6)

If you are having problems changing the color of the back arrow, this snippet will fix the problem. At a minimum, you'll need the last line of code added to your actual rootViewController. – Roselba 24/11, 2013 at 23:57

Yeah, John. I wasted about an hour on this yesterday as well. One problem (big problem) was that the docs were terrible in pointing out all the possible attributes. Any idea where they might be listed? TY. – Cheng 19/12, 2013 at 15:24

Thanks @john It's overlapping my Custom Colour,Can you explain me why? – Silvio 3/4, 2014 at 9:31

I think you should create a new question. I couldn't tell you why unless I see your code and what you are doing. @MacGeek – Intentional 3/4, 2014 at 15:12

Thanks, it worked :). But UITextAttributeTextColor is deprecated in iOS 7, now you should use NSForegroundColorAttributeName – Paediatrics 19/4, 2015 at 16:3

I was doing all this in viewDidLoad and it wasn't working...this did the trick. Still not sure why it doesn't work in viewDidLoad... – Peake 16/5, 2017 at 0:33

Swift3, ios 10

To globally assign the color, in AppDelegate didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:

let textAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.white]
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = textAttributes

Swift 4, iOS 11

let textAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor:UIColor.white]
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = textAttributes

Pinup answered 23/12, 2015 at 13:38 Comment(0)

Vin's answer worked great for me. Here is the same solution for C# developers using Xamarin.iOS/MonoTouch:

var navigationBar = NavigationController.NavigationBar; //or another reference
navigationBar.BarTintColor = UIColor.Blue;
navigationBar.TintColor = UIColor.White;
navigationBar.SetTitleTextAttributes(new UITextAttributes() { TextColor = UIColor.White });
navigationBar.Translucent = false;

Tout answered 7/10, 2013 at 14:44 Comment(1)

Did not know you could set SetTitleTextAttributes the way you did. – Hydrobomb 7/7, 2014 at 9:21

Swift / iOS8

let textAttributes = NSMutableDictionary(capacity:1)
textAttributes.setObject(UIColor.whiteColor(), forKey: NSForegroundColorAttributeName)
navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = textAttributes

Rehnberg answered 27/9, 2014 at 12:28 Comment(1)

let textAttributes = NSMutableDictionary(capacity:1) is now the correct call for the NSMutableDictionary initialization. – Merras 30/11, 2014 at 19:9

[[UINavigationBar appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor whiteColor]}];

Tradespeople answered 28/6, 2014 at 21:25 Comment(1)

I like this approach as you can set this in AppDelegate itself, and it uses the Appearance proxy. – Littlest 30/4, 2015 at 10:42

To change color of UINavigationBar title the correct way use this code:

[self.navigationController.navigationBar setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:[UIColor whiteColor] forKey:UITextAttributeTextColor]];

UITextAttributeTextColor is deprecated in lastest ios 7 version. Use NSForegroundColorAttributeName instead.

Fibre answered 4/11, 2013 at 1:14 Comment(0)

If you're looking to change the title text size and the text color you have to change the NSDictionary titleTextAttributes, for 2 of its objects:

    self.navigationController.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial" size:13.0],NSFontAttributeName,
                                                                  [UIColor whiteColor], NSForegroundColorAttributeName, 
                                                                  nil];

Enceladus answered 4/8, 2015 at 10:33 Comment(0)

I think previous answers are correct , this is another way of doing the same thing. I am sharing it here with others just in case if it becomes useful for someone. This is how you can change the text/title color for the navbar in ios7:

UIColor *red = [UIColor colorWithRed:254.0f/255.0f green:0.0f/255.0f blue:0.0f/255.0f alpha:1.0];
NSMutableDictionary *navBarTextAttributes = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithCapacity:1];
[navBarTextAttributes setObject:red forKey:NSForegroundColorAttributeName ];
self.navigationController.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = navBarTextAttributes;

Marivelmariya answered 5/1, 2014 at 23:42 Comment(0)

It seems that Accessibility controls in the iOS Settings override pretty much everything you try to do color-wise to the navigation bar buttons. Make sure you have all the settings to the default positions (set increase contrast, bold text, button shapes, etc to off) otherwise you won't see anything change. Once I did it, all the color change code started working as expected. You might not need to turn them all off, but I didn't pursue it further.

Henriettehenriha answered 15/4, 2015 at 22:41 Comment(1)

Exactly what happened to me. I was unable to change the tint color of a bar button item when "Bold Text" was on. That is not good. Now I will have to use a graphic instead :-( – Vidette 7/10, 2017 at 14:51

Swift 5/iOS 13

To change color of title in controller:

UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]

Subtype answered 29/2, 2020 at 10:24 Comment(0)

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