via: http://www.applausible.com/blog/?p=401 A common thing in client apps i write is custom back images, mostly because the apps have a custom UINavigationBar image, so its good to have them themed together. You can see what this looks like for this tutorial: Ok so in your View Controller, thats shown after something in your navigation view is shown, add this code in the viewDidLoad method: 01 - (void)viewDidLoad { 02 [super viewDidLoad]; 03 04 // Set the custom back button 05 UIImage *buttonImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"back_button.png"]; 06 07 //create the button and assign the image 08 UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom]; 09 [button setImage:buttonImage forState:UIControlStateNormal]; 10 11 //set the frame of the button to the size of...