In iOS 9, storyboards can be connected by a \'storyboard reference\' that links to a second storyboard by adding a storyboard reference and setting the \'referenced ID\' to
I didn't have to make a storyboard reference back from the 2nd storyboard to the first as Ryan laid out. For me, in my second storyboard I could Control-drag from a viewcontroller to its own exit, and the unwind segue that I had specified in a viewcontroller class consumed in the first storyboard appeared. So I just selected that to create a new exit segue with an identifier, and called performSegueWithIdentifier: on it in code. Worked fine.