Hide back button on iOS 8

Question

Here's a fragment of my Storyboard:

As there is a NavigationController at the very beginning, a default back button is displayed into each view controller and this is right. But I would like that back button not to be displayed in the Login screen show and in the home one. So in the LoginViewController class I wrote this:

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    self.navigationItem.setHidesBackButton(true, animated: true)
    ...
}

and it works perfectly. I did the same thing into HomeViewController class:

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    self.navigationItem.setHidesBackButton(true, animated: true)
    ...
}

but this won't work. In fact here's what I get:

and so there is a login back button. Why this? Any ideas?

Do you want to just hide the back button? or the entire navigationBar? — Shamas S, Sep 05 '15 at 00:49
Just the back button if possible... otherwise, if you have a better solution please explain me — SagittariusA, Sep 05 '15 at 00:51
see this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/614212/how-to-hide-back-button-on-navigation-bar-on-iphone — Shamas S, Sep 05 '15 at 00:54
@iosDev82: thank you for your suggestion. I had already tried all the statements they said but none of them works for me... — SagittariusA, Sep 05 '15 at 00:59

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 05 '15 at 01:00

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Try this one

self.tabBarController?.navigationItem.setHidesBackButton(true, animated: true)

It works in my sample project.

answered Sep 05 '15 at 01:00

pixyzehn

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Ok, this seems to work. Thank you from heart mate. But now I need to understand why...can you explain me please? Where was I making the damned mistake? – SagittariusA Sep 05 '15 at 01:02
But now I need to understand why...can you explain me please? Where was I making the damned mistake? – SagittariusA Sep 05 '15 at 01:03
Maybe because that scene is linked to a tab bar controller and it is not a simple view controller like the login scene? – SagittariusA Sep 05 '15 at 01:05
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Yes. This is why you need to access UITabBarController in order to change status UINavigationItem. – pixyzehn Sep 05 '15 at 01:07
very useful and very kind of yours! :) – SagittariusA Sep 05 '15 at 01:10

Hide back button on iOS 8

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