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title: "How to create transparent navigation bar in Xcode?"  
description: "How to create transparent navigation bar in Xcode?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2016-01-29  
updated: 2016-02-01  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/33939/how-to-create-transparent-navigation-bar-in-xcode  
category: "iphone"  
tags: ["iphone", "ios", "objective c"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How to create transparent navigation bar in Xcode?

I want to make our UINavigationBar as [transparent](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/1784/wpf-webbrowser-on-transparent-window) without loosing bar [items](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/33812/getting-number-of-items-selected-in-uicollectionview-in-ios) [visibility](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/301300/how-to-improve-your-visibility-in-zero-click-search-results) in our [iphone application](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/23139/can-i-embed-a-custom-font-in-an-iphone-application).

## Replies

### Reply by Tarun Kumar

If you want to make transparent navigation bar then here, I will tell you two types of transparency level. First one is setting navigation Bar Metrics and second one by setting navigation bar property translucent to YES.

```
// Bar metrics example:[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:[UIImage new] forBarMetricsDefault];// Translucent example:self.navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = YES;
```


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