Programmatically call navigation controller back button on iOS

Question

In an UINavigationController based iPhone application, the method I would like to execute is the software equivalent of pressing the back button and back button.

i.e. automatically click the "Jobs" button, as shown here:

Is there a general iOS call that I can make, or is more information needed?

Answer 1

UINavigationController -popViewControllerAnimated: method should do what you want:

 [navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES]; 

Answer 2

Assuming you really don't want to press the button programmatically, but just copy the result of the button click, you have to tell the navigation controller to display the current controller.

[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];

This will remove it from the stack and return you to the previous view controller.

Answer 3

Swift 3.0

Return to root view

 self.navigationController?.popToRootViewController(animated: true) 

Back to previous view

 self.navigationController?.popViewController(animated: true) 

Swift 2.3

Return to root view

 self.navigationController?.popToRootViewControllerAnimated(true) 

Back to previous view

 self.navigationController?.popViewControllerAnimated(true) 

Answer 4

You have to call

popViewControllerAnimated:

which is the opposite of adding view controllers using pushViewController:animated:

Answer 5

 [self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimates:YES]; 

is the best option, but if you are neither the same class as the controller of the controller, nor your delegate changes before calling the back button method, you can also try -

you must first define the return button ---

 UIBarButtonItem *newBackButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle: @"anyTitleForBackButton" style: UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target: nil action: @selector(backButtonTapped)]; [[self navigationItem] setBackBarButtonItem: newBackButton]; [newBackButton release]; 

and then in the backButtonTapped method you can call -

 [self.navigationController pushViewController:desiredViewController animated:YES];