Solution I have been doing Angela's course and have faced the same problem. He is my solution. Setup navigation bar Firstly, I configured my navigation bar; I checked the standard and scroll edges under appearances. ChatViewController I created a setup function to set my navigation bar and apply the desired background colour. func setupNavbar(){ title = K.appName navigationItem.hidesBackButton = true let appearance = UINavigationBarAppearance() appearance.configureWithOpaqueBackground() navigationController?.navigationBar.standardAppearance = appearance navigationController?.navigationBar.scrollEdgeAppearance?.backgroundColor = UIColor(named: K.BrandColors.purple) } You can then call this function from your viewDidLoad. Like this: override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() setupNavbar() tableView.dataSource = self tableView.delegate = self tableView.register(UINib(nibName: K.cellNibName, bundle: nil), forCellReuseIdentifier: K.cellIdentifier) loadMessage() } Welcome Screen The above code will change the setup for your navigation bar for the entire application. To fix this, I implemented the viewWillApear of the WelcomeViewController so that the nav bar would be fixed every time the welcome screen was added to the view hierarchy. override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) { let appearance = UINavigationBarAppearance() appearance.configureWithTransparentBackground() navigationController?.navigationBar.standardAppearance = appearance navigationController?.navigationBar.scrollEdgeAppearance = appearance } Since the other two screens can only be reached by navigating to the welcome screen first, you don't need to change any other code. Demo Here is a screenshot of what my UI looks like.