How do I give an “identifier” to a view controller

Question

The instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier: method requires that the view controller I pass have an identifier. I went to my storyboard and clicked on my view controller, but I see no option to set the identifier. Where exactly do I find this option?

Answer 1

In the identity inspector there is a field Storyboard ID. You could enter the class name here and then use this identifier in instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:.

Answer 2

As the Image suggests! Hope it helps!

Then to use it you call:

[self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"YourViewControllerID"];

Answer 3

Updated for XCode 8 and Swift 3.

instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier is now instantiateViewController(withIdentifier:).

Setting the storyboard ID: