Change text color for large titles

Question

sverin OP

Created Jun ’17

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How can I chage the text color for large titles? I want it to be white.

I tried to set the titleTextAttributes like this:

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles = true
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [
     NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor.rawValue: UIColor.white
]

But the text only turns up white when I scroll and it is displayed in the middle as usual.

Answered by matthijs2704 in 235765022

True, it is ignored for the big title.

This is a temporary workaround, call this in your viewDidAppear:

for view in self.navigationController?.navigationBar.subviews ?? [] {
     let subviews = view.subviews
     if subviews.count > 0, let label = subviews[0] as? UILabel {
          label.textColor = <replace with your color>
     }
}

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Answer 1

ash69 OP

Jun ’17

Seems like an early beta issue - setting the Title Color in a storyboard is also ignored

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Answer 2

matthijs2704 OP

Jun ’17

Accepted Answer

True, it is ignored for the big title.

This is a temporary workaround, call this in your viewDidAppear:

for view in self.navigationController?.navigationBar.subviews ?? [] {
     let subviews = view.subviews
     if subviews.count > 0, let label = subviews[0] as? UILabel {
          label.textColor = <replace with your color>
     }
}

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Answer 3

sverin OP

Jun ’17

Works great. I will stick with this solution until official fix.

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Answer 4

anils OP

Jul ’17

navigationController?.navigationBar.largeTitleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.yellow]

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Answer 5

sverin OP

Jul ’17

Thank you, works great

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Answer 6

jDerm OP

Aug ’17

Another workaround is to set the style of the notification bar to black.

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Answer 7

cielojr OP

Nov ’21

The way you do this in iOS 13 has changed, you now use UINavigationBarAppearance class

let appearance = UINavigationBarAppearance(idiom: .phone)
appearance.largeTitleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: UIColor.red]
appearance.titleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: UIColor.red]
appearance.backgroundColor = .white
navigationItem.standardAppearance = appearance
navigationItem.scrollEdgeAppearance = appearance

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