Navigation Bar Not Showing after Adding NavigationController

Question

I have an existing UITableViewController that I've embedded in a NavigationController. However, the Navigation Bar is not showing when I present the view.

Presenting the TableViewController (its Storyboard id is: SelectServicesController) :

if let selectServicesController = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("SelectServicesController") as? UITableViewController {
    self.navigationController?.presentViewController(selectServicesController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

This is what it looks like when I build (nav bar does not show):

Answer 1

So I just did this and at fist could not get it to show up at all. Then Figured it out, You just need to select the navigation controller and set it to be the ✅is initial View Controller

This is what your storyboard should look like

Then to make everything show up I added this to my viewDidLoad of the view the Navigation controller is presenting. This step is more optional.

    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.redColor()
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.blackColor()
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.blackColor()]
    navigationController?.navigationBar.hidden = false

And this is what it looks like

mmmm Red on black 🤓 Hope that helps you.

Answer 2

You're presenting a UITableViewController, which doesn't have a navigation controller as a parent (even though your Storyboard has it first, you're not actually using it).

You can fix this by doing something like this:

if let selectServicesController = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("SelectServicesController") as? UITableViewController {
    let navigationController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: selectServicesController)
    self.navigationController?.presentViewController(navigationController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

Or by setting the navigation controller as the initial view controller of the storyboard and then calling it like this:

if let selectServicesController = self.storyboard?.instantiateInitialViewController() {
    self.navigationController?.presentViewController(selectServicesController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

Answer 3

I encountered the same problem. I solved it by Changing the segue to the navigation controller that embeds the View Controller I want to display.

Hopefully it would work for you. Let me know if it is a bad practice.