How can I hide a UIBarButtonItem?

Question

I have created a simple UI in IB, this consists of a UINavigationBar and a UIBarButtonItem that I dragged and dropped on the right hand side.

I am trying to set this button to be hidden a certain times but I am having some problems.

So far I have tried using:

self.NavigationItem.rightBarButton = nil;

...which didn't work for me. I have also tried creating and IBOutlet and linking it to the button however I'm having problems with this too. I think it should be pretty simple and maybe I'm over-complicating it, but at this point I'm pretty stumped!

Please can someone help me out?

Make sure your NavigationItem outlet is set. – logancautrell Oct 21 '11 at 19:12 — logancautrell, Oct 21 '11 at 19:12

score 29 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 21 '11 at 19:13

UINavigationItem doesnt have a rightBarButton property. Try rightBarButtonItem instead (or [self.navigationItem setRightBarButtonItem:nil animated:NO];):

self.navigationController.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = nil;
// Or
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = nil;
// Or
[self.navigationItem setRightBarButtonItem:nil animated:NO];

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 21 '11 at 19:14

Just reset the buttons

   -(void)setItems:(NSArray *)items animated:(BOOL)animated

More info here: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/uikit/reference/UIToolbar_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/UIToolbar/setItems%3aanimated%3a

You can get the current items using the items property, then just remove the one you don't want to show and pass in the new NSArray.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 19 '14 at 19:15

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You can also add a UIButton as the UIBarButtonItem's customView. Then set the hidden property on the customView (UIButton)

answered Mar 19 '14 at 19:15

Nate Potter

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 04 '14 at 17:24

Rather than deleting the bar button item and destroying the button and it's attached storyboard segue, you can just set it to clear text when it's disabled.

[self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor clearColor]}
                                                      forState:UIControlStateDisabled];

Then when ever you want the bar button item hidden, you can just do:

self.navigationItem.rightBarButton.enabled = NO;

It's lame there's no hidden property but this offers the same result.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 30 '14 at 13:45

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Actually, you can just create an IBOutlet reference to the desired UIBarButtonItem and when needed just do as follow:

[self.yourOutletRerence setImage: nil];

answered Jul 30 '14 at 13:45

Antonio Carlos

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 18 '14 at 09:11

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The simplest solution: Just change the BarButtonItem's identifier to custom.

answered Oct 18 '14 at 09:11

user4156224

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How can I hide a UIBarButtonItem?

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