How to prevent iOS 13 behaviour for appodeal fullscreen video ad? - ios

In iOS there is a new behaviour for modal view controller when being presented. Now it's not fullscreen by default and when I try to slide down, the app just dismiss the View Controller automatically.
How can I prevent this behaviour and get back to the old good fullscreen modal vc? I face this problem while using appodeal framework.
Code to show videoad
if Appodeal.isReadyForShow(with: .nonSkippableVideo){
Appodeal.showAd(.nonSkippableVideo, rootViewController: self)
}

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