Navigation bar disappeared from my storyboard items

Question

From one day to another the navigation bar disappeared from my storyboard items in XCode 4.6.2. I can't restore them (cleaning, rebuilding, closing, reopening etc)

When running my app on my device or in simulator, everything works ok, the navigation bar is there. But I need them on my storyboard during design time, I have buttons, labels there those must be changed now. (pls. don't advise to do it from code, I want to do it on the storyboard graphically, I think that's why it is there)

How can I get my navigation bars back? I hope the solution won't be to delete/do them again as I read in some places, because I have dozens of navigation controllers.

Thanks in advance!

Solution 1

Try this:

Select the view controller with the missing navigation bar and view the attributes inspector (This is the fourth tab over in the right side window). Under the simulated metrics section, change the "Top Bar" from the default "inferred" to "Navigation Bar".

Hopefully that solves your problem.

Solution 2

Specifically for xcode 6, under the simulated metrics section (fourth tab on the right window), under the "Top View" dropdown, pick the "Translucent Navigation Bar" to get the default nav bar.

Solution 3

For me I just command-A and copy, delete all view controllers, then paste back in, and it worked.

Solution 4

I had a similar problem when I changed "is initial view controller" from one view/navigation controller to another within the main storyboard. I, in error, set the view controller and not the navigation controller as initial view controller. Wasted a fair bit of time on a simple mistake.

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Comments

[Tom]

Thanks my friend. It works. But why did it disappear? So far it worked by inferred mode.

[csundman]

There might be multiple navigation controllers that lead to that particular view controller, or perhaps even a container view? XCode can get pretty finicky in these cases since inferred doesn't always know which direction it's coming from. I've noticed a lot of unpredictable behavior with inferred and have many of view controllers specified as I described. I suppose that's why the functionality is there.

[Luca Detomi]

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[Jeremy Andrews]

I know its not a coding answer but it is a very simple mistake one can make on Xcode - so - I believe it is an answer that help save time.

[Abuzar Amin]

After doing this still navigation bar is not showing. Navigation bar is not showing in complete application. Although my views are embeded in UINavigationController

[Jeff]

I had several segues going to the same viewController. This views nav bar was already set to inferred. So I set the nav bar to transparent black, did what I needed to do and set it back to inferred. I would call this a bug but probably not considering my configuration.

[MSurrow]

The glory of SO - your three lines helped me a lot 4 years later. Thank you. I needed to do this after I deleted a view that was originally Embedded in the Navigation Controller, but I then later had to replace the view with another type of view (delete + create new). The nav bar was showing in the app but not in the storyboard. (writing this so other people with same issue might easier from google, since it wasn't exactly the first hit). Navigation bar disappeared after creating new view for Navigation controller.

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