Adding Bar Button Item to Left of Navigation Item Adding Bar Button Item to Left of Navigation Item xcode xcode

Adding Bar Button Item to Left of Navigation Item


Drag BarButtonItem and place left side on your navigation item.


I could not find a way to manage it in storyboard.So i coded it in my viewcontroller's ViewDidLoad function adding the following code

self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = _sidebarButton;self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = nil;


1/. Right click on Storyboard > Open as > Source Code

2/. Find your View Controller by Ctrl + F : <name of View Controller>

3/. Find navigationItem > You will see barButtonItem like this:

<navigationItem key="navigationItem" title="Title" id="n9s-Cu-Dtc">   <barButtonItem key="rightBarButtonItem" title="Item" image="menu-icon-2.png" id="aN6-4T-o4T"/></navigationItem>

4/. Change key="rightBarButtonItem" to key="leftBarButtonItem"

Save and finish. Right click on Storyboard > Open as > Builder Interface