Z-index of iOS MapKit user location annotation

Question

I need to draw the current user annotation (the blue dot) on top of all other annotations. Right now it is getting drawn underneath my other annotations and getting hidden.

Answer 1

Here is a way to do it using predicates. I think it should be faster

NSPredicate *userLocationPredicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"class == %@", [MKUserLocation class]];
NSArray* userLocation = [[self.mapView annotations] filteredArrayUsingPredicate:userLocationPredicate];

if([userLocation count]) {
    NSLog(@"Bring blue location dot to front");
    MKAnnotationView *view = [self.mapView viewForAnnotation:(MKUserLocation *)[userLocation objectAtIndex:0]];
    [[view superview] bringSubviewToFront:view];
}