Dismissing a Presented View Controller

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I think Apple are covering their backs a little here for a potentially kludgy piece of API. 

  [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:NO completion:nil]

Is actually a bit of a fiddle. Although you can – legitimately – call this on the presented view controller, all it does is forward the message on to the presenting view controller. If you want to do anything over and above just dismissing the VC, you will need to know this, and you need to treat it much the same way as a delegate method – as that’s pretty much what it is, a baked-in somewhat inflexible delegate method.

Perhaps they’ve come across loads of bad code by people not really understanding how this is put together, hence their caution.

But of course, if all you need to do is dismiss the thing, go ahead.

My own approach is a compromise, at least it reminds me what is going on:

  [[self presentingViewController] dismissViewControllerAnimated:NO completion:nil]

[Swift]

  self.presentingViewController?.dismiss(animated: false, completion:nil)

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