I've hidden the navigation bar and the status bar, now the screen edge pan gesture to go back won't work, is this typical?

Question

I'm curious, if I set the navigationBar to hidden, and also hide the status bar, my view controller no longer responds to the screen edge gesture to pop the view controller.

Is this expected behaviour? I tried to set the interactivePopGestureRecognizer to enabled in viewDidLoad after I hide the navigation bar, but it still won't work.

Answer 1

[self.navigationController.navigationBar setHidden:YES];<--doesn't remove pop gesture

[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES];<-- disables pop gesture

Simply use the first option, and in your root controller's viewDidAppear method use:

[self.navigationController.navigationBar setHidden:NO];

Answer 2

Are you sure you've done things right? I've put together an example that seems to work for me. All I did was make the navigationController.navigationBar.hidden = YES and [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES]

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After closer inspection, it looks like there are two different properties on UINavigationController. There is navigationBar which is the UINavigationBar view, and there is navigationBarHidden which is a boolean. When you set navigationBarHidden to true, the swipe gesture stops working. But if you set that actual view to be hidden with navigationBar.hidden then the gesture still works. Check the Git repository for an example.