how to get largeTitle on current vc, but small title on vc being pushed to?

Question

I have a simple "more" screen where I want to have a largeTitle . I have several entries in a static table view which are leading to other view controllers. I want to have the large title in the "more" screen, but not in the screens pushed to. Either are all of the titles large or all small. How do I do it? I am using the storyboard.

Answer 1

Did you try to set

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles = false

in your second View Controller?

Answer 2

On the detail vc set the following:

self.navigationItem.largeTitleDisplayMode = .never

If you access the navigationItem of the navigationController , it will change all detail vc, but if you access the navigationItem of the detailVC, it will only change the current title in the navigationBar .

You cannot do that in Storyboard, because you cannot click on the navigationBar itself in the detail vc.

More information available in a WWDC video from 2017 .

Answer 3

Because there is only one navigation controller which stacks all your views, you can try to write

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles = false

in the viewWillApear method of the second viewController and on viewWillDisappear you can change it again to

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles = true