Missing Navigation's or Back Button's Title When Push ViewControllers in Succession - ios

Question

I have a problem on UINavigationController when pushing view controllers in succession.
For information, I use XCode 7.0, build targeting iOS 8, and the app running on Simulator 9.0.
Here's the view when user manually tap the tableview's cell:
As shown on the above screenshots, the navigation's and back button's title were rendered normally.
But when I did this programmatically, like this (stack is array of UIViewController):
for controller in stack {
self.mainNavController.pushViewController(controller, animated: false)
}
or using delay on 0.0 second like this:
for controller in stack {
dispatch_after(dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, Int64((0.0 * Float(NSEC_PER_SEC)))), dispatch_get_main_queue(), {
self.mainNavController.pushViewController(controller, animated: false)
})
}
It will show the final result like this (left is w/o delay, right is w/ delay):
Notice the missing navigation title on the left screenshot (w/o delay) and missing back button title on the right screenshot (w/ delay).
This issue has confuse me for days. Any idea of why this is happening? Does anyone know how to fix this? Or at least, work around this issue?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This is what I have done in the past. You might find it helpful:
override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject?) {
let myBackButton = UIBarButtonItem()
myBackButton.title = "This is my back button"
navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = myBackButton
}

Answer 2

This is happening because the intermediate view controllers are not being told to load so it isn't able to load things properly like the correct messaging for the back button. For any intermediate viewControllers, call loadViewIfNeeded() and then the upper view controllers can get all the required info from them.