How do I disable the navigation bar shadow in iOS 6 for navigation bars with custom background images?

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Dom Chapman picture Dom Chapman · Jun 18, 2012 · Viewed 46.5k times · Source

It seems in iOS 6, a drop shadow is automatically added to the navigation bar even when you set a custom background image. I'm pretty sure this wasn't the case with iOS 5 as when I test the same code in the iOS 5 and 6 sim, the shadow appears in iOS 6 but not 5.

Does anyone know anything about this? Or how to enable/disable it?

Answer

Kevin Fernandes picture Kevin Fernandes · Nov 9, 2012

Place this in your AppDelegate

[[UINavigationBar appearance] setShadowImage:[UIImage new]];
// is IOS 7 and later
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:[UIImage new] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];

This is what did it for me. Hope it helps!

Swift version with updates from comments

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

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