To all those who are having trouble with UINavigationBar custom backgrounds in iOS5, do this in the corresponding viewDidLoad methods:

#if defined(__IPHONE_5_0) && __IPHONE_OS_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED >= __IPHONE_5_0 if ([self.navigationController.navigationBar respondsToSelector:@selector( setBackgroundImage:forBarMetrics:)]){ [self.navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"TitleBar"] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault]; } 

#endif

Notice that in my case, the background image was named "TitleBar". You can put whatever your custom background image name is.

To all those who are having trouble with UINavigationBar custom backgrounds in iOS5, do this in the corresponding viewDidLoad methods:

#if defined(__IPHONE_5_0) && __IPHONE_OS_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED >= __IPHONE_5_0 if ([self.navigationController.navigationBar respondsToSelector:@selector( setBackgroundImage:forBarMetrics:)]){ [self.navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"TitleBar"] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault]; } #endif 

Notice that in my case, the background image was named "TitleBar". You can put whatever your custom background image name is.