“Application tried to present modally an active controller”?

Question

I just came across a crash showing a NSInvalidArgumentException with this message on an app which wasn\'t doing this before.

Application

Answer 1

In my case, I was presenting the rootViewController of an UINavigationController when I was supposed to present the UINavigationController itself.

Answer 2

Instead of using:

self.present(viewControllerToPresent: UIViewController, animated: Bool, completion: (() -> Void)?)

you can use:

self.navigationController?.pushViewController(viewController: UIViewController, animated: Bool)

Answer 3

I have the same problem. I try to present view controller just after dismissing.

[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];

When I try to do it without animation it works perfectly so the problem is that controller is still alive. I think that the best solution is to use dismissViewControllerAnimated:completion: for iOS5

Answer 4

I had same problem.I solve it. You can try This code:

[tabBarController setSelectedIndex:1];
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];

Answer 5

The same problem error happened to me when I tried to present a child view controller instead of its UINavigationViewController parent

Answer 6

Assume you have three view controllers instantiated like so:

UIViewController* vc1 = [[UIViewController alloc] init];
UIViewController* vc2 = [[UIViewController alloc] init];
UIViewController* vc3 = [[UIViewController alloc] init];

You have added them to a tab bar like this:

UITabBarController* tabBarController = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
[tabBarController setViewControllers:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:vc1, vc2, vc3, nil]];

Now you are trying to do something like this:

[tabBarController presentModalViewController:vc3];

This will give you an error because that Tab Bar Controller has a death grip on the view controller that you gave it. You can either not add it to the array of view controllers on the tab bar, or you can not present it modally.

Apple expects you to treat their UI elements in a certain way. This is probably buried in the Human Interface Guidelines somewhere as a "don't do this because we aren't expecting you to ever want to do this".