How do I stop my UITabBar from responding to touches after hiding it?

Question

When hiding the tab bar either by:

self.tabBarController?.tabBar.isHidden = true

or

self.tabBarController?.tabBar.layer.zPosition = -1

The tab bar hides as expected but it still responds to touches and toggles the tab. How do I prevent that from happening?

I want the Tab Bar to appear when the view loads and only hide it during a specific mode then unhide it again so any answers that involve hiding / removing the tab bar prior to load won't help unfortunately.

For some background information, what I am trying to achieve can be thought of as a custom ActionSheet. It comes up from the bottom and I want to utilise the bottom space as much as possible hence hiding the tab bar. The user can then dismiss the action sheet and the tab bar reappears.

@Anbu.karthik I think the code provided in the question is enough to understand the problem. — Cristik, Sep 11 '18 at 03:50
Adding a view over the tab bar that would swallow the taps might help. — Cristik, Sep 11 '18 at 03:52
Have you tried setting `.userInteractionEnabled` on the tab bar? — Thomas Ring, Sep 11 '18 at 04:00
@Cristik thanks for the suggestion; currently I do have a view over the tab bar already that has buttons but they aren't been fired as the hidden tab bar is still capturing the taps. — Michael Hudson, Sep 11 '18 at 04:01
@MichaelHudson have you added the new view as a subview of the tab bar controller's view? If yes, try adding it as a sibling of the tab bar controller view. — Cristik, Sep 11 '18 at 04:03

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 11 '18 at 04:33

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You can disable with this line of code,

self.tabBar.isUserInteractionEnabled = false

answered Sep 11 '18 at 04:33

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 11 '18 at 05:19

if you need to hide and disable the tab bar use this

self.tabBarController?.tabBar.isHidden = true
self.tabBarController?.tabBar.isUserInteractionEnabled = false

and If you need to hide it on a Push, add like this while you push to a desired VC.

let objCreateEventVC = CreateEventVC()
objCreateEventVC.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = true
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(objCreateEventVC, animated: false)

How do I stop my UITabBar from responding to touches after hiding it?

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