如果你在Settings视图控制器中已经有了后退按钮，你想改变Payment Information视图控制器上后退按钮的颜色为其他颜色，你可以在Settings视图控制器的prepareforsegue中这样做:

override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) { 
    if segue.identifier == "YourPaymentInformationSegue"
    {
        //Make the back button for "Payment Information" gray:
        self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem?.tintColor = UIColor.gray               
    }
}

我更喜欢自定义NavigationController而不是设置全局ui，或者放在ViewController中。

这是我的解决方案

class AppNavigationController : UINavigationController {

  override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    self.delegate = self
  }

  override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {

  }

}
extension AppNavigationController : UINavigationControllerDelegate {

  func navigationController(_ navigationController: UINavigationController, willShow viewController: UIViewController, animated: Bool) {
    let backButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(
      title: "   ",
      style: UIBarButtonItem.Style.plain,
      target: nil,
      action: nil)
    backButtonItem.tintColor = UIColor.gray
    viewController.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = backButtonItem
  }

  func navigationController(_ navigationController: UINavigationController, didShow viewController: UIViewController, animated: Bool) {

  }

}

此外，如果你使用全局设置ui，如UIBarButtonItem.appearance()，你不需要像EKEventEditViewController,PickerViewController等苹果Api。tintColor = .white

    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.black // to change the all text color in navigation bar or navigation 
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.white // change the navigation background color
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.black] // To change only navigation bar title text color

它将通过-(void)viewDidLoad中的这一行来解决:

self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor;

如果你试了很多次都没有成功，你可以试试:

UIBarButtonItem.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [UINavigationBar.self]).tintColor = .red

其实，我试了很多次，才发现这种方法行得通。

在Swift 4中，你可以使用以下方法来解决这个问题:

let navStyles = UINavigationBar.appearance()
// This will set the color of the text for the back buttons.
navStyles.tintColor = .white
// This will set the background color for navBar
navStyles.barTintColor = .black