Try self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = [[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@”Back” style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:nil action:nil] autorelease]; I found that by looking at the backBarButtonItem docs in Apple’s docs for UINavigationItem.
To set the back button title for a view controller without changing its title use: Objective-C: self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@”” style:self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem.style target:nil action:nil]; Swift: navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: “”, style: .plain, target: nil, action: nil) To be clear, this is done on the view controller that you would see if you hit the back button. … Read more
This should be placed in the method that calls the ViewController titled “NewTitle”. Right before the push or popViewController statement. UIBarButtonItem *newBackButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@”NewTitle” style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:nil action:nil]; [[self navigationItem] setBackBarButtonItem:newBackButton]; [newBackButton release];