How to hide UINavigationBar 1px bottom line

Question

I have an app that sometimes needs its navigation bar to blend in with the content.

Does anyone know how to get rid of or to change color of this annoying little bar?

On the image below situation i have - i'm talking about this 1px height line below "Root View Controller"

Answer 1

For iOS 9 users, this worked for me. just add this:

UINavigationBar.appearance().shadowImage = UIImage()

Answer 2

In Swift 3 we do this way

For any view controller:

navigationBar.shadowImage = UIImage()
setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: .default)

For an entire app:

UINavigationBar.appearance().setBackgroundImage(UIImage(),barMetrics: .Default)
UINavigationBar.appearance().shadowImage = UIImage()

Answer 3

Below can help simply!

Swift:

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.setValue(true, forKey: "hidesShadow")

Objective C:

[self.navigationController.navigationBar setValue:@(YES) forKeyPath:@"hidesShadow"];

Answer 4

pxpgraphics' solution updated for Swift 2.0

extension UINavigationBar {

    func hideBottomHairline()
    {
        hairlineImageViewInNavigationBar(self)?.hidden = true
    }

    func showBottomHairline()
    {
        hairlineImageViewInNavigationBar(self)?.hidden = false
    }

    private func hairlineImageViewInNavigationBar(view: UIView) -> UIImageView?
    {
        if let imageView = view as? UIImageView where imageView.bounds.height <= 1
        {
            return imageView
        }

        for subview: UIView in view.subviews
        {
            if let imageView = hairlineImageViewInNavigationBar(subview)
            {
                return imageView
            }
        }

        return nil
    }

}

extension UIToolbar
{

    func hideHairline()
    {
        let navigationBarImageView = hairlineImageViewInToolbar(self)?.hidden = true
    }

    func showHairline()
    {
        let navigationBarImageView = hairlineImageViewInToolbar(self)?.hidden = false
    }

    private func hairlineImageViewInToolbar(view: UIView) -> UIImageView?
    {
        if let imageView = view as? UIImageView where imageView.bounds.height <= 1
        {
            return imageView
        }

        for subview: UIView in view.subviews
        {
            if let imageView = hairlineImageViewInToolbar(subview)
            {
                return imageView
            }
        }

        return nil
    }

}

Answer 5

-(void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];

    UIImage *emptyImage = [UIImage new];
    self.navigationController.navigationBar.shadowImage = emptyImage;
    [self.navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:emptyImage forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
}

Answer 6

pxpgraphics's answer for Swift 3.0.

import Foundation
import UIKit

extension UINavigationBar {

  func hideBottomHairline() {
    let navigationBarImageView = hairlineImageViewInNavigationBar(view: self)
    navigationBarImageView!.isHidden = true
  }

  func showBottomHairline() {
    let navigationBarImageView = hairlineImageViewInNavigationBar(view: self)
    navigationBarImageView!.isHidden = false
  }

  private func hairlineImageViewInNavigationBar(view: UIView) -> UIImageView? {
    if view is UIImageView && view.bounds.height <= 1.0 {
      return (view as! UIImageView)
    }

    let subviews = (view.subviews as [UIView])
    for subview: UIView in subviews {
      if let imageView: UIImageView = hairlineImageViewInNavigationBar(view: subview) {
        return imageView
      }
    }
    return nil
  }
}

extension UIToolbar {

  func hideHairline() {
    let navigationBarImageView = hairlineImageViewInToolbar(view: self)
    navigationBarImageView!.isHidden = true
  }

  func showHairline() {
    let navigationBarImageView = hairlineImageViewInToolbar(view: self)
    navigationBarImageView!.isHidden = false
  }

  private func hairlineImageViewInToolbar(view: UIView) -> UIImageView? {
    if view is UIImageView && view.bounds.height <= 1.0 {
      return (view as! UIImageView)
    }

    let subviews = (view.subviews as [UIView])
    for subview: UIView in subviews {
      if let imageView: UIImageView = hairlineImageViewInToolbar(view: subview) {
        return imageView
      }
    }
    return nil
  }
}