self.title sets navigationController and tabBarItem's title? Why?

Question

I do this in a UIViewController for one of my tabs:

self.title = @"Welcome";

However, it's overwriting whatever I have for the tabBarItem. I have tried:

self.tabBarItem.title = @"Home";

and

[self.tabBarItem initWithTitle:@"Home" image:[UIImage imageNamed:@"iconHome.png"] tag:0];

But still, self.title overwrites the tabBarItem, regardless of whether I am trying the two latter pieces of code after the title has been set. The code even runs without errors, but the self.tabBarItem.title or initWithTitle doesn't do anything?

Answer 1

OK, I figured it out! Here's what I am doing:

self.title = @"Title for TabBarItem"; // TabBarItem.title inherits the viewController's self.title self.navigationItem.title = @"Title for NavigationBar"; 

the navigationBar would inherit self.title, unless otherwise set using self.navigationItem.title

Answer 2

//set nav item title self.navigationController.navigationBar.topItem.title = @"zurück"; 

this did it for me :=) (nothing of the above worked)