这是另一种方法。

在你的父视图控制器中，实现以下方法:

- (void) setBackBarButtonItemTitle:(NSString *)newTitle {
  self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem.title = newTitle;
}

在你的子视图控制器中，当你想要改变标题时，这将会工作:

NSArray *viewControllerArray = [self.navigationController viewControllers];
int parentViewControllerIndex = [viewControllerArray count] - 2;
[[viewControllerArray objectAtIndex:parentViewControllerIndex] setBackBarButtonItemTitle:@"New Title"];

我从来没有能够让parentViewController属性工作:

[(ParentViewController *)(self.navigationController.parentViewController) setBackBarButtonItemTitle:@"New Title"];

我不知道这是一个错误还是我没有正确使用它。但是在viewControllers数组中抓取倒数第二个视图控制器指向父视图控制器，我可以用那个引用正确地调用父方法。

在《ChildVC》中，这对我来说很管用……

self.navigationController.navigationBar.topItem.title = @"Back";

也适用于Swift !

self.navigationController!.navigationBar.topItem!.title = "Back"

问题:导航栏中的“返回”文本不能被替换。

原因:在推送视图后，导航栏中设置了“Back”标签，因为父视图控制器中的.title属性被设置为nil(或未初始化)。

一个解决方案:如果你设置self.title="Whatever…"，你会看到在按下新的视图控制器后，"Back"将出现"Whatever…"。

self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = [[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] 
                                              initWithTitle:@"Log out" 
                                              style:UIBarButtonItemStyleDone 
                                              target:nil 
                                              action:nil] autorelease];

你可以把它放在父控制器代码中的任何你喜欢的地方，这允许你为不同的子视图有不同的后退按钮。

Most of solutions kills the original style of BackButton (The left arrowed bar button) while adding a usual button with desired title. So to keep the original style there are 2 ways: 1st: To use undocumented button style (110 or something like that) which I prefer not to do. But if you want you could find how to do it here, on stackoverflow. 2nd: To use I the Trenskow's idea. I liked it and I use it a bit changed. Instead of overriding - (NSString*)title I've decided to keep the original title in the following way (which allows me to use nib's titles as well as given title at push state btw).

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
    static NSString * backButtonTitle=@"Back"; //or whatever u want

    if (![self.title isEqualToString:backButtonTitle]){

        UILabel* customTitleView = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
        customTitleView.text = self.title; // original title
        customTitleView.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:20];
        customTitleView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
        customTitleView.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
        customTitleView.shadowColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.0 green:0.0 blue:0.0 alpha:0.5];
        customTitleView.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0, -1);

        [customTitleView sizeToFit];

        self.navigationItem.titleView = [customTitleView autorelease];
        self.title = backButtonTitle; 
    }
}

这个解决方案效果很好，看起来很自然。此外，如果在viewDidLoad方法中使用它，它可以防止执行超过1次。 我也试过杰塞德克的解决方案，但看起来很糟糕。它导致可见的用户标题栏的变化，从原来的BackButton的期望和回来。

我们有两个VC A和B。

如果你想在B中更改标题，请在A中编写这段代码

- (IBAction)goToBViewController:(UIButton *)sender {

    BViewController *vc = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"VC"];
    UIBarButtonItem *newBackButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Your title here"
                                                                  style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain
                                                                 target:nil
                                                                 action:nil];
    [[self navigationItem] setBackBarButtonItem:newBackButton];
    [self.navigationController pushViewController:vc animated:NO];

}

Swift 4.1 Xcode 9.4

let secondViewController = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "VC"])
let newBackButton = UIBarButtonItem.init(title: "Your title here", style: UIBarButtonItemStyle.plain, target: nil, action: nil)
navigationController?.navigationBar.topItem?.backBarButtonItem = newBackButton
navigationController?.pushViewController(secondViewController!, animated: true)