How to stop a DispatchWorkItem in GCD?
GCD does not perform preemptive cancelations. So, to stop a work item that has already started, you have to test for cancelations yourself. In Swift, cancel the DispatchWorkItem. In Objective-C, call dispatch_block_cancel on the block you created with dispatch_block_create. You can then test to see if was canceled or not with isCancelled in Swift (known … Read more