How do I remove all annotations from MKMapView except the user location annotation?

Question

I use removeAnnotations to remove my annotations from mapView but same it remove user location ann. How can I prevent this, or how to get user ann

Answer 1

To clear all the annotations from the map:

[self.mapView removeAnnotations:[self.mapView annotations]];

To remove specified annotations from Mapview

 for (id <MKAnnotation> annotation in self.mapView.annotations)
{
    if (![annotation isKindOfClass:[MKUserLocation class]])
    {
              [self.mapView removeAnnotation:annotation];   
    }

}

Hope this may help you.

Answer 2

How about some NSPredicate filter?

NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"className != %@", NSStringFromClass(MKUserLocation.class)];
NSArray *nonUserAnnotations = [self.mapView.annotations filteredArrayUsingPredicate:predicate];
[self.mapView removeAnnotations:nonUserAnnotations];

Life is always better with NSPredicate filter