iPhone: Setting Navigation Bar Title

The view controller must be a child of some UINavigationController for the .title property to take effect. If the UINavigationBar is simply a view, you need to push a navigation item containing the title, or modify the last navigation item:

UINavigationItem* item = [[UINavigationItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"title text"];...[bar pushNavigationItem:item animated:YES];[item release];

or

bar.topItem.title = @"title text";

if you are doing it all by code in the viewDidLoad method of the UIViewController you should only add self.title = @"title text";

something like this:

- (void)viewDidLoad {    [super viewDidLoad];    self.title = @"title";}

you could also try self.navigationItem.title = @"title";

also check if your navigationItem is not null and if you have set a custom background to the navigationbar check if the title is set without it.

There's one issue with using self.title = @"title";

If you're using Navigation Bar along with Tab bar, the above line also changes the label for the Tab Bar Item. To avoid this, use what @testing suggested

self.navigationItem.title = @"MyTitle";