Partially disable liquid glass effect from navigation bars but retain on tabbar

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Created Aug ’25

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I want to be able to disable all liquid glass effects from my Navigation bar, and it's bar buttons. But I still want to be able to have the liquid glass effect on my UITabbar.

Is there a way to disable glass effects from navbar and still retain them all for tabbars using UIKit?

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Answer 1

arlomedia OP

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For toolbar and navigation bar buttons (UIBarButtonItem), you can set the hidesSharedBackground property to true.

I'm still looking for a way to remove the Liquid Glass style from the Back button. I tried this in my view controller but it had no effect:

self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem?.hidesSharedBackground = true

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Answer 2

arlomedia OP

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I ended up completely replacing the back button:

override func viewDidLoad() {
	super.viewDidLoad()
	
	let imageConfig = UIImage.SymbolConfiguration(pointSize: 24, weight: .unspecified, scale: .default)
	let image = UIImage(systemName: "chevron.left", withConfiguration: imageConfig)
	let backButton = UIBarButtonItem(image: image, style: .plain, target: self, action: #selector(clickBackButton))
	backButton.hidesSharedBackground = true
	backButton.tintColor = .blue
	self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = backButton
}

@objc func clickBackButton() {
	self.navigationController?.popViewController(animated: true)
}

The only downside I see so far is that the long-press on the back button to show a menu of the navigation stack is no longer available.

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