# Ionic: No back button when navigating away from tab view

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-no-back-button-when-navigating-away-from-tab-view/22589>\
**Category:** ionic-v1\
**Created:** [May 8, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-no-back-button-when-navigating-away-from-tab-view/22589 "2015-05-08T03:18:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![jackyon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/jackyon/32/69735_2.png) [@jackyon](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/jackyon)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-no-back-button-when-navigating-away-from-tab-view/22589/1 "2015-05-08T03:18:35Z")

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I cannot figure out how to get the back button to show when navigating away from a tabbed view to a single page view. The single page view shouldn’t have the tab bar. I can make the back button appear when I make the view I’m navigating to part of the tab hierarchy, but that’s not what I want.

I’ve been looking around and can’t seem to find a post on this issue. I just might not be searching for the right keywords.

My set up is this…

tabs: tab.feed, tab.friends, tab.account

other view: randompage

```
.state('randompage', {
url:'/randompage',
templateUrl: 'templates/randompage.html',
controller: 'RandomPageCtrl'

```

})

.state(‘tab’, {  
url: ‘/tab’,  
abstract: true,  
templateUrl: ‘templates/tabs.html’,  
controller: ‘TabCtrl’  
})

.state(‘tab.feed’, {  
url: ‘/feed’,  
views: {  
‘tab-feed’: {  
templateUrl: ‘templates/tab-feed.html’,  
controller: ‘FeedCtrl’  
}  
}  
})

Everything navigates and shows correctly except the back button is not showing.

Please let me know if you know of any alternate solution, possibly what I may be doing wrong, or need more information.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![jawache](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/jawache/32/66376_2.png) [@jawache](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/jawache)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2015, 10:22am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-no-back-button-when-navigating-away-from-tab-view/22589/2 "2015-05-08T10:22:12Z")

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Posted a _potential_ solution on another thread: [Loss of transition and back button from tab view](http://forum.ionicframework.com/t/loss-of-transition-and-back-button-from-tab-view/1095/14)