Where can I find the default back button chevron image for iOS 7?

Question

I'm working on updating an old app that uses UIButtons that are meant to mimic a navigation bar's back button in appearance. I'd like to use the default chevron image that's used for back buttons in iOS 7.

Is this image available somewhere in the iOS 7 SDK or elsewhere so I can use it as a UIButton's image via setImage:forState: ?

Answer 1

If you need to extract image from iOS, this is the best tool:

iOS-Artwork-Extractor .

I think you would be able to extract chevron image with it.

Answer 2

It's not available through any published, Apple authorized API. Some options available to you are:

1. See if somebody else has extracted the artwork files and provides instructions or tools for you to do so yourself.
2. Take a screenshot of the UI element, then use that yourself.
3. Write code to draw it yourself; in the case of the back button chevron, it is a fairly simple image (two lines, a few pixels think, rounded caps) and wouldn't be hard to reproduce with a few Core Graphics calls.