How to set multi line Large title in navigation bar? ( New feature of iOS 11)

Jigar Thakkar picture Jigar Thakkar · Dec 20, 2017 · Viewed 22.3k times · Source

I am in process of adding large title in navigation bar in one of the application. The issue is title is little long so I will require to add two lines in large title. How can I add large title with two lines in navigation bar?

This is not about default navigation bar title! This is about large title which is introduced in iOS 11. So make sure you add suggestions by considering large title. Thanks

Title text truncated with 3 dots in the navigation bar

Answer

Patricio Bravo picture Patricio Bravo · Jul 12, 2018

Based in @krunal answer, this is working for me:

extension UIViewController {

func setupNavigationMultilineTitle() {
    guard let navigationBar = self.navigationController?.navigationBar else { return }
    for sview in navigationBar.subviews {
        for ssview in sview.subviews {
            guard let label = ssview as? UILabel else { break }
            if label.text == self.title {
                label.numberOfLines = 0
                label.lineBreakMode = .byWordWrapping
                label.sizeToFit()
                UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.3, animations: {
                    navigationBar.frame.size.height = 57 + label.frame.height
                })
            }
        }
    }
}

In the UIViewController:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    self.title = "This is a multiline title"
    setupNavigationMultilineTitle()
}

override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewDidAppear(animated)
    setupNavigationMultilineTitle()
}

And for setting font and color on the large title:

navigation.navigationBar.largeTitleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: .red, NSAttributedStringKey.font: UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: 30)]