How to turn off the automatic gesture to go back a view with a navigation controller?

Question

So I\'m noticing all of my views are receiving the gesture to go back (pop a view) when the user swipes on the very left side of the screen (in either orientation) (

Answer 1

obj-c

self.navigationController.interactivePopGestureRecognizer.enabled = NO;

swift

navigationController?.interactivePopGestureRecognizer?.isEnabled = false

Answer 2

For IOS 8 (Swift):

class MainNavigationController: UINavigationController {

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        self.interactivePopGestureRecognizer.enabled = false

        // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
    }

}

Answer 3

Use this code for previous than iOS 7

if ([self.navigationController respondsToSelector:@selector(interactivePopGestureRecognizer)]) {
    self.navigationController.interactivePopGestureRecognizer.enabled = NO;
}

Answer 4

Adding to Gabriele's Solution.

To support any iOS before iOS 7 you will need to wrap this code with this:

if([self.navigationController respondsToSelector:@selector(interactivePopGestureRecognizer)]) {
        self.navigationController.interactivePopGestureRecognizer.enabled = NO;
    }

This will stop the App crashing in iOS 6 and iOS 5 for missing selector.

Answer 5

I found out setting the gesture to disabled only doesn't always work. It does work, but for me it only did after I once used the backgesture. Second time it wouldn't trigger the backgesture.

Fix for me was to delegate the gesture and implement the shouldbegin method to return NO:

- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewDidAppear:animated];

    // Disable iOS 7 back gesture
    if ([self.navigationController respondsToSelector:@selector(interactivePopGestureRecognizer)]) {
        self.navigationController.interactivePopGestureRecognizer.enabled = NO;
        self.navigationController.interactivePopGestureRecognizer.delegate = self;
    }
}

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewWillDisappear:animated];

    // Enable iOS 7 back gesture
    if ([self.navigationController respondsToSelector:@selector(interactivePopGestureRecognizer)]) {
        self.navigationController.interactivePopGestureRecognizer.enabled = YES;
        self.navigationController.interactivePopGestureRecognizer.delegate = nil;
    }
}

- (BOOL)gestureRecognizerShouldBegin:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer
{
    return NO;
}

Answer 6

I use this solution in my project, it disables only interactivePopGestureRecognizer and allows you to use another gesture recognizers.

- (void)viewDidLoad {

    [super viewDidLoad];

    if ([self.navigationController respondsToSelector:@selector(interactivePopGestureRecognizer)]) {

        self.navigationController.interactivePopGestureRecognizer.enabled = NO;
        self.navigationController.interactivePopGestureRecognizer.delegate = self;

    }

}


- (BOOL)gestureRecognizerShouldBegin:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer {

    if ([gestureRecognizer isEqual:self.navigationController.interactivePopGestureRecognizer]) {

        return NO;

    } else {

        return YES;

    }

}