Warning :-Presenting view controllers on detached

Question

In my app, I am using a navigation controller. Later on in some view I am using presentViewController for showing a zoomed image. Also I am not using a Storyboard or nib.

I am getting this error in iOS 7 only. It works fine in iOS 6 and earlier:

Presenting view controllers on detached view controllers is discouraged

Answer 1

I think that the problem is that you do not have a proper view controller hierarchy. Set the rootviewcontroller of the app and then show new views by pushing or presenting new view controllers on them. Let each view controller manage their views. Only container view controllers, like the tabbarviewcontroller, should ever add other view controllers views to their own views. Read the view controllers programming guide to learn more on how to use view controllers properly. https://developer.apple.com/library/content/featuredarticles/ViewControllerPGforiPhoneOS/

Answer 2

I have almost the same problem. The reason was that I tried to present "some" controller on another and after animation was completed I was setting presented controller as root. After this operation all further controllers presenting bring me to the warning: "Presenting view controllers on detached view controllers is discouraged". And I solve this warning just settings "some" controller as root without any presentation at the begin.

Removed:

[[self rootController] presentViewController:controller animated:YES completion:^{

       [self window].rootViewController = controller;

       [[self window] makeKeyAndVisible];}];

Just make as root without any presentation:

 [[self window] setRootViewController:controller];

Answer 3

Try presenting on TabBarController if it is a TabBarController based app .

[self.tabBarController presentViewController:viewController animated:YES completion:nil];

Reason could be self is child of TabBarController and you are trying to present from a ChildViewController.

Answer 4

In my case, I've a sampleViewController's view added as a subview, then tries to present a popover from the view of sampleViewController (here self instead a UIViewController instance):

[self.view addSubview:sampleViewController.view];

The right way should be below:

// make sure the vc has been added as a child view controller as well
[self addChildViewController:sampleViewController];
[self.view addSubview:sampleViewController.view];
[sampleViewController didMoveToParentViewController:self];

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B.t.w., this also works for the case that present a popover form a tableview cell, you just need to make sure the tableview controller has been added as child view controller as well.

Answer 5

The reason of this warning is i was presenting a view controller over a small view that is not full size view. Given below is the image of my project. where on click on four option above. User navigate to different childviewcontroller's view.(it works like tabViewcontroller). But the childviewcontroller contains view of small size. So if we present a view from childviewcontroller it gives this warning.

And to avoid this, you can present a view on childviewcontroller's parent

  [self.parentViewController presentViewController:viewController animated:YES completion:nil];

Answer 6

Use [self.navigationController presentViewController:xxx animated:YES completion:nil] in iOS 8.