How to hide on swipe programmatically in Swift - ios

How can I implement hide on swipe programmatically? the reason why I don't want to use the Hide Bars on swipe option from the attributes menu is because I came across a problem. When enabled, the app will hide the navigation bar, as well as the toolbar if the user scrolls down the content view, and the bars will appear when the user swipes back up. I don't want this change to apply to all the navigation bars of the entire app. I want to be able to just hide one navigation bar. I did gave this an attempt, I set the hidesBarsOnSwipe property to true as shown in the code below
navigationController?.hideBarsOnSwipe = true but I came across other problems, I tried placing my code above the viewDidLoad method in the ViewControllers where this feature will be enabled and I set the property to false on the ones I don't want to this featured to be enabled.
My problem: I can't hide the navigation bar after navigating back to the view controller with the false property
I don't understand what I'm doing wrong, any suggestions?

Instead of putting your code in viewDidLoad(), put it in viewWillAppear() -- that ensures it's called every time your View Controller comes on screen, since with Navigation Controllers, the viewDidLoad() method isn't always called when view controllers are popped. Also make sure to explicitly mention the preffered setting for each view controller -- i.e. navigationController?.hideBarsOnSwipe in the viewWillAppear() of each of your View Controllers.
Hope this helps.

Swift 4
navigationController?.hidesBarsOnSwipe = false

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I'm a new Swift developer. I'm using Swift 4.2 and XCode 10.2.
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// Add this to your viewcontroller
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.navigationController?.isNavigationBarHidden = true
}
And going further if you want to you can disable the animations for the view controller
hope this helps

How do I get Navigation bar on only the last screen in Swift iOS?

If I've got 6 screens total and I'm wanting to add a navigation controller between my last two scenes so my final screen has a nav bar/ navigation through a navigation controller is there an easy way to do that?
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I am having difficulty figuring out how to set up my UINavigationController to get the result I want. Most succinctly, I want to mimic the navigation of the app BriefMe.
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a main view (v#1) that segues to a new view controller (v#2) with an embedded UIWebView
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We’re still popping a controller from the stack during the transition. We just add the navigation bar as a subview of the controller’s view at the top of the stack and then set up the back event manually.
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Hope that helps!

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