# Need more control over nav bar back button

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/need-more-control-over-nav-bar-back-button/13947>\
**Category:** ionic-v1\
**Created:** [December 11, 2014, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/need-more-control-over-nav-bar-back-button/13947 "2014-12-11T13:36:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![jbelis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/jbelis/32/72228_2.png) [@jbelis](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/jbelis)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/need-more-control-over-nav-bar-back-button/13947/1 "2014-12-11T13:36:16Z")

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Hi,

I have an application with 2 sets of tabs. On some of the tabs in the first set, it is possible click on a link to navigate to a tab inside the second tabbed view. My problem is that the back button is not shown and there is no way to go back the first page (other than a hardware back). This is because, as I understand it, history is maintained in the context of a single tab. See here :[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25622573/ionic-back-button-incorrectly-shown-while-switching-tabs](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25622573/ionic-back-button-incorrectly-shown-while-switching-tabs)

Is there any way I can tell my app to use a _global_ history instead of a tab-specific history?

This would also cause the back button to show up when navigating among tabs in the same abstract tabbed view, which would be nice.

Thank!

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**Author:** ![sjerd](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/sjerd/32/7491_2.png) [@sjerd](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/sjerd)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/need-more-control-over-nav-bar-back-button/13947/2 "2014-12-11T13:59:35Z")

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this has changed alot in the nightly build if i’m correct