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

Yes, I also faced the same warning message while displaying an Alert controller which was in another view. Later on I avoided this by presenting the alert controller from the parent view controller as below:

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

Answer 2

In Swift 4.1 and Xcode 9.4.1

The solution is

DispatchQueue.main.async(execute: {
    self.present(alert, animated: true)
})

If write like this i'm getting same error

let alert = UIAlertController(title: "title", message: "message", preferredStyle: .alert)
let defaultAction = UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: .default, handler: { action in
    })
alert.addAction(defaultAction)

present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil) 

I'm getting same error

Presenting view controllers on detached view controllers is discouraged <MyAppName.ViewController: 0x7fa95560Z070>.

Complete solution is

let alert = UIAlertController(title: "title", message: "message", preferredStyle: .alert)
let defaultAction = UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: .default, handler: { action in
     })
alert.addAction(defaultAction)
//Made Changes here    
DispatchQueue.main.async(execute: {
    self.present(alert, animated: true)
})

Answer 3

One of the solution to this is if you have childviewcontroller So you simply presentviewcontroller on its parent by given

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

And for dismiss use the same dismissview controller.

[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];

This is perfect solution works for me.

Answer 4

Try this code

UINavigationController *navigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:<your ViewController object>];

[self.view.window.rootViewController presentViewController:navigationController animated:YES completion:nil];

Answer 5

It depends if you want to show your alert or something similar in anywhere of kind UIViewController.

You can use this code example:

UIAlertController* alert = [UIAlertController alertControllerWithTitle:@"Alert" message:@"Example" preferredStyle:UIAlertControllerStyleAlert];

UIAlertAction *cancelAction = [UIAlertAction actionWithTitle:@"Cancel" style:UIAlertActionStyleDefault handler:nil];

[alert addAction:cancelAction];


[[[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] window] rootViewController] presentViewController:alert animated:true completion:nil];