Changing the text color of a navigation bar title when "prefersLargeTitles" is set to true
Solution 1
There is a new UINavigationBar property "largeTitleTextAttribute" that should help with this.
Here is a sample code you can add to your view controllers viewDidLoad method
navigationController?.navigationBar.largeTitleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.blue]
Here is a sample code and screenshot without the largeTitleTextAttributes set, but the barStyle is set to .black
navigationController?.navigationBar.barStyle = .black
Here is a screenshot without the largeTitleTextAttributes set, but the barStyle is set to .default
navigationController?.navigationBar.barStyle = .default
Solution 2
The way you do this in iOS 13 has changed, you now use UINavigationBarAppearance
class like this…
let appearance = UINavigationBarAppearance(idiom: .phone)
appearance.largeTitleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: UIColor.systemRed]
appearance.titleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: UIColor.systemRed]
appearance.backgroundColor = .white
navigationItem.standardAppearance = appearance
navigationItem.scrollEdgeAppearance = appearance
Solution 3
Not sure if it's a bug in beta 1 & 2, but here is a way to set the color. It's a bit of a "hacky" workaround, but it should work until Apple fixes this. In both the Objective-C and Swift version, this code goes in the viewDidAppear:
method.
Objective-C:
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
for (UIView *view in self.navigationController.navigationBar.subviews) {
NSArray <__kindof UIView *> *subviews = view.subviews;
if (subviews.count > 0) {
UILabel *label = subviews[0];
if (label.class == [UILabel class]) {
[label setTextColor:[UIColor redColor]];
}
}
}
});
Swift:
DispatchQueue.main.async {
for view in self.navigationController?.navigationBar.subviews ?? [] {
let subviews = view.subviews
if subviews.count > 0, let label = subviews[0] as? UILabel {
label.textColor = UIColor.red
} } }
Solution 4
If using storyboard, just change "Large Title Text Attributes" Title Color at Navigation Bar Attribute Inspector:
Solution 5
Here's the working code to use large titles and sets the text color of small and large titles to white, both on iOS11+ and on older iOS versions.
// Will apply to versions before iOS 11
navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [
NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.white
]
if #available(iOS 11.0, *) {
navigationController?.navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles = true
navigationController?.navigationBar.largeTitleTextAttributes = [
NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.white
]
}
(There used to be a bug in Xcode, but it now appears to be fixed)
Comments
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Andy Ibanez almost 2 years
I have a requirement in which I have to use a
UINavigationBar
with a red large title.Currently, I have the following code:
func prepareNavigationController() { let navController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: self) navController.navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles = true navigationItem.searchController = UISearchController(searchResultsController: nil) navigationItem.hidesSearchBarWhenScrolling = false navController.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor.rawValue: UIColor.red] }
But it's not actually tinting the title label to red. This is the result:
But changing
prefersLargeTitles
to false does the right thing, and my title is red.navController.navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles = false
I am not entirely sure if this is a bug since at the time of this writing we are still in the first beta, or if this is intentional behavior, mostly because I haven't any of Apple's apps color the large titles before. Is there any way to actually get the large title to have any color I want?