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# Navigation Bar

The design guidelines for navigation bars should answer most of your questions.

<https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/ui-bars/navigation-bars/>

## Customizing the bar

![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/c3Tlq.png)

By default, the title of the navigation bar is a label, but we can actually override it with anything.

For example, to add a search bar to the navigation bar, we can do:

```
searchController = UISearchController()
navigationItem.titleView = searchController.searchBar
```

![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UamJp.png)