IOS 7 Navigation Bar text and arrow color

Question

I want to set background for Navigation Bar to be black and all colors inside it to be white.

So, I used this code :

[[UINavigationBar appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:
     [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
      [UIColor whiteColor],
      NSForegroundColorAttributeName,
      [UIColor whiteColor],
      NSForegroundColorAttributeName,
      [NSValue valueWithUIOffset:UIOffsetMake(0, -1)],
      NSForegroundColorAttributeName,
      [UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial-Bold" size:0.0],
      NSFontAttributeName,
      nil]];

But back button text color, arrow and bar button have still default blue color.
How to change those colors like on image below?

Answer 1

Swift / iOS8

let textAttributes = NSMutableDictionary(capacity:1)
textAttributes.setObject(UIColor.whiteColor(), forKey: NSForegroundColorAttributeName)
navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = textAttributes

Answer 2

If you're looking to change the title text size and the text color you have to change the NSDictionary titleTextAttributes, for 2 of its objects:

    self.navigationController.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial" size:13.0],NSFontAttributeName,
                                                                  [UIColor whiteColor], NSForegroundColorAttributeName, 
                                                                  nil];

Answer 3

Swift3, ios 10

To globally assign the color, in AppDelegate didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:

let textAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.white]
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = textAttributes

Swift 4, iOS 11

let textAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor:UIColor.white]
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = textAttributes

Answer 4

[[UINavigationBar appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor whiteColor]}];

Answer 5

I think previous answers are correct , this is another way of doing the same thing. I am sharing it here with others just in case if it becomes useful for someone. This is how you can change the text/title color for the navbar in ios7:

UIColor *red = [UIColor colorWithRed:254.0f/255.0f green:0.0f/255.0f blue:0.0f/255.0f alpha:1.0];
NSMutableDictionary *navBarTextAttributes = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithCapacity:1];
[navBarTextAttributes setObject:red forKey:NSForegroundColorAttributeName ];
self.navigationController.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = navBarTextAttributes;

Answer 6

It seems that Accessibility controls in the iOS Settings override pretty much everything you try to do color-wise to the navigation bar buttons. Make sure you have all the settings to the default positions (set increase contrast, bold text, button shapes, etc to off) otherwise you won't see anything change. Once I did it, all the color change code started working as expected. You might not need to turn them all off, but I didn't pursue it further.