How to Set Title of Navigation Bar in Swift

Changing navigation title programmatically

You change the title by changing the title of the view controller being displayed:

viewController.title = "some title"

Normally this is done in view did load on the view controller:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    self.title = "some title"
}

However, this only works if you have your view controller embedded in a UINavigationController. I highly recommend doing this instead of creating a navigation bar yourself. If you insist on creating a navigation bar yourself, you can change the title by doing:

navigationBar.topItem.title = "some title"

Set title of navigation bar

For Swift 3:

If you want to set just the navigation title without using a UINavigationController then make an outlet of the navigation item as

 @IBOutlet weak var navItem: UINavigationItem!

and then in viewDidLoad() write

navItem.title = "ANY TITLE"

How to set title of Navigation Bar in Swift?

Since the Tab Bar is actually the Root View Controller of the Navigation Bar, you need to set the UITabBarController's title instead in the viewWillAppear function so that it happens every time you switch tabs:

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)
    self.tabBarController?.navigationItem.title = "My Title"
    self.tabBarController?.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = settingsButton //This is the IBOutlet variable that you previously added
}

But a better way to do it would actually be to have it the other way around, like so

You should hook up a UINavigationController for each child of the UITabBarController, as it is more correct semantically, and simpler to maintain.

How to set the title of a Navigation Bar programmatically?

In your UIViewController

self.navigationItem.title = @"The title";

How to set title of navigation bar in storyboard?

I am pretty sure this is a bug in Xcode... I have experienced the same issue and most of the time it was solved by restarting Xcode.

** In addition you may be able to get it solved by doing:

Drag a Navigation item from the objects pane into the viewcontroller or tableviewcontroller. This seemed to work for me. I did notice that the navigation area was missing from the "Document Outline Pane".

I hope this helps.

How do I left align the title of a navigation bar in Xcode?

You can use the navigationItems titleView to add a UILabel with left alignment and then set its frame using auto layout like this:

let label = UILabel()
label.text = "Title Label"
label.textAlignment = .left
self.navigationItem.titleView = label
label.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
label.superview?.addConstraint(NSLayoutConstraint(item: label, attribute: .centerX, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: label.superview, attribute: .centerX, multiplier: 1, constant: 0))
label.superview?.addConstraint(NSLayoutConstraint(item: label, attribute: .width, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: label.superview, attribute: .width, multiplier: 1, constant: 0))
label.superview?.addConstraint(NSLayoutConstraint(item: label, attribute: .centerY, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: label.superview, attribute: .centerY, multiplier: 1, constant: 0))
label.superview?.addConstraint(NSLayoutConstraint(item: label, attribute: .height, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: label.superview, attribute: .height, multiplier: 1, constant: 0))

change navigation bar title font - swift

Try this:

Objective-C

[[UINavigationBar appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:attrsDictionary];

Swift 3

self.navigationController.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "CaviarDreams", size: 20)!]

Swift 4

self.navigationController.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.font: UIFont(name: "CaviarDreams", size: 20)!]

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