How to hide a UIBarButtonItem in your Navigation Controller

Since UIBarButtonItems do not have a “hidden” property, we can’t just set this to yes and it’ll disappear. Instead, we can set them to nil.

In this example we’re hiding the right item in the navigation controller:

[self.navigationItem setRightBarButtonItems:nil animated:YES];

1	[self.navigationItem setRightBarButtonItems:nil animated:YES];

3 thoughts on “How to hide a UIBarButtonItem in your Navigation Controller”

Ruchi says:

September 25, 2014 at 2:35 am

Thanks for this post. It helped me alot.

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iUrii says:

August 21, 2015 at 7:45 am

You can use text attributes to hide a bar button:

barButton.enabled = false
barButton.setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.clearColor()], forState: .Normal)

Also see my solution with UIBarButtonItem extension for the similar question:
Make a UIBarButtonItem disapear using swift IOS
http://stackoverflow.com/a/32139271/979986

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1. versluis says:
  
  August 23, 2015 at 9:39 am
  
  Awesome, thanks for the tip!
  
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