---
title: titleMenuProvider
framework: uikit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: uikit/uinavigationitem/titlemenuprovider
---

# titleMenuProvider

A closure that generates the navigation item’s title menu.

## Declaration

```swift
var titleMenuProvider: (([UIMenuElement]) -> UIMenu?)? { get set }
```

## Mentioned in

Building a desktop-class iPad app

## Discussion

Discussion UIKit calls this closure to create a context menu that appears when a person taps the title of the navigation item. UIKit passes in a set of menu element suggestions that you can either use directly or modify in this closure to customize the menu. // Use suggested menu elements directly. navigationItem.titleMenuProvider = { suggestions in     return UIMenu(children: suggestions) }

// Add a custom menu element to the suggestions. navigationItem.titleMenuProvider = { suggestions in     var finalMenuElements = suggestions     finalMenuElements.append(UICommand(title: "Save",                                         image: UIImage(systemName: "square.and.arrow.down"),                                        action: #selector(self.save)))     return UIMenu(children: finalMenuElements) } Before displaying the title menu, UIKit validates each element in the menu you return by traversing the responder chain, starting with the navigation controller’s topViewController. For selector-based menu elements, implement your methods on topViewController or farther up in the responder chain if you want those elements to appear in the title menu. For more information, see canPerformAction(_:withSender:). tip: You don’t need to assign a titleMenuProvider if you only want to show Rename in your title menu. If you assign a renameDelegate without setting a titleMenuProvider, UIKit automatically generates a title menu containing the Rename menu element only.

## See Also

### Customizing the title menu

- [documentProperties](uikit/uinavigationitem/documentproperties.md)
- [UIDocumentProperties](uikit/uidocumentproperties.md)