I have a view which contains two views. One of those views contains two buttons and some text labels. The other one, with alpha set to 0.25, has an UIActivityIndicator
Though answer is replied in earlier response, just like to add for information purpose "[self.activityIndicatorView setHidden:YES];" no need to call this method explicitly, because startAnimating/stopAnimating already take care of this. I'm assuming you are using default value of "hidesWhenStopped" property.