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The issue is actually fixed by forgetting about a TabBarController application. Do everytihng on a basic application basis.

Create your tab bar controller programatically, and your navigationcontroller programmatically too.

then create a UITableViewController and add that to the NavController created in the App Delegate. Add that NavController to the Tab Bar Controller. Add the Tab Bar Controller's view to the window.

Do everything in the App Delegate to do with TabBarControllers and Navigation Controllers. They are simple and easy to make programatically, so why on earth muddle it up with Interface Builder. The fact is, that the templates provided in Xcode have never been the simplest. They have actually been pathetically convoluted. Just create a navigation controller and tab bar controller, add the view Controller to the nav controller, and add the nav controller to the tab bar controller.

I use Interface builder sparingly. It often makes things far more complicated. This is one example of it. NavControllers and TabBarControllers should NEVER be made via interface builder, but by code. Apple never uses interface builder for this, as its way too stupidly set up. The programing way to do it is simpler, and far more understandable when you understand a bit of Objective-C.