Always presenting presenting modally

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No matter what I do, the segue kind is always present modally (one vc on top an other). This is even when it is not set to it. At the moment my segue is set to "Show" but even still, the bar at the top of the view controller is still there and when I run the app it does the present modally over the top animation. I don't know where to go from here!!

Reseting my computer. Reinstalling Xcode. Different ways of showing the vc.

This is what I mean by white bar at top

Bradley, once again, the screenshot you provided - can you show the view hierarchy? Which view has its bg color set to green? — Isaaс Weisberg, Jun 24 '19 at 07:16

Isaaс Weisberg · Answer 1 · 2019-06-23T21:41:17.413

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Update: I have seen your screenshot update to the question and I would like to point out that the issue that you are trying to solve has nothing to do with modal presentations. The content of the ‘view’ of a ‘UIViewController’ does not fill the screen because it’s constrained either to the Safe Area or the margins of the its superview.

Initial answer:

Lol but that’s a feature and not a bug. The “Show” setting that you are talking about only controlls the animation. In order to discard all instantiated modal presentation contexts you have to swap out the ‘rootViewController’ of the ‘UIWindow’ in which this contexts exist.

Please note that storyboard segues feature no support for this in UIKit.

Please note that usage of storyboard segues is an ill practice and should be considered deprecated. The primary reason for this is that it prevents programmer from establishing a proper routing layer in the application leading to a rapidly increasing technical debt.

edited Jun 23 '19 at 21:41

answered Jun 23 '19 at 21:34

Isaaс Weisberg

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How would I do this then? – Bradley Cable Jun 23 '19 at 21:40
It is definitely to do with the segue because it only is there when I add a segue. – Bradley Cable Jun 23 '19 at 21:41
Have you checked the constraints of your view in the view controller? – Isaaс Weisberg Jun 23 '19 at 21:45
I have no constraints on ANY vc's and the fact that it presents in that way even occurs when I don't use segues and I use self.present(). – Bradley Cable Jun 23 '19 at 21:51
I also just make a new project and it still does it!!!! idk why or even how its doing this – Bradley Cable Jun 23 '19 at 21:59

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 23 '19 at 22:26

The reason is that Show has a complex meaning. It means:

"If our parent is a UINavigationController, push. Otherwise, present modally."

Well, your parent is not a UINavigationController. There is no UINavigationController anywhere around! So Show ends up meaning exactly the same thing as Present / Modal.

Always presenting presenting modally

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