How can I hide the back arrow in the navigation bar's back button?

Question

I have a navigation controller for which I'd like to override the default back arrow image and text. Basically, instead of the < Back, I'd like to hide the little < arrow, and just show the Back text. I've been able to replace the back arrow with another image, so I figured i'd just try to replace it with an image and then set the image to match the color of the background. How can I accomplish this?

In AppDelegate.swift I have this:

extension UINavigationItem{
    override open func awakeFromNib() {
        super.awakeFromNib()
        let backItem = UIBarButtonItem()
        backItem.title = ""
        backItem.image = UIImage(named: "icons8_burger")
        self.backBarButtonItem = backItem
    }
}

In the viewDidLoad() for the controller that we are sent to when the button is clicked, I have this:

override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        let burger = UIImage(named: "icons8_burger")

        navigationController?.navigationBar.backIndicatorImage = burger
        navigationController?.navigationBar.backIndicatorTransitionMaskImage = burger
    }

So, any ideas how I can accomplish this? I haven't found what I'm looking for thus far.

Any advice appreciated!

Answer 1

If you do ,

navigationController?.navigationBar.backIndicatorImage = nil
navigationController?.navigationBar.backIndicatorTransitionMaskImage = nil

or

navigationController?.navigationBar.backIndicatorImage = UIImage(named: "")
navigationController?.navigationBar.backIndicatorTransitionMaskImage = UIImage(named: "")

Then by default iOS use < as default image.

To remove this image you need to add blank transparent image. I used sample from here and google image reference is here

Now reduce the image pixel size to (1,1) and add in your assets and use below code.

navigationController?.navigationBar.backIndicatorImage = UIImage(named: "Blank")
navigationController?.navigationBar.backIndicatorTransitionMaskImage = UIImage(named: "Blank")

Here Blank is the same image name in my asset.