Programmatically go back to previous ViewController in Swift

Question

I send the user over to a page on a button click. This page is a UITableViewController.

Now if the user taps on a cell, I would like to push him ba

Answer 1

Swift 4.0 Xcode 10.0 with a TabViewController as last view

If your last ViewController is embebed in a TabViewController the below code will send you to the root...

navigationController?.popToRootViewController(animated: true)
navigationController?.popViewController(animated: true)

But If you really want to go back to the last view (That could be Tab1, Tab2 or Tab3 view..)you have to write the below code:

_ = self.navigationController?.popViewController(animated: true)

This works for me, i was using a view after one of my TabView :)