Activity on the More... tab sets UIViewController toolbarHidden to YES - ios

I have a UIViewController on the More... tab. In viewDidLoad, I set toolbarHidden to NO, and the toolbar appears. However, if I select another tab from More..., then when I return to my original UIViewController, the toolbar is hidden (toolbarHidden is YES). I've checked to be sure it's the same view controller object.
My workaround is to set toolBarHidden to NO in viewWillAppear.
Is this documented behavior that I'm missing or is it a bug?
UPDATE
Here is some fairly trivial sample code. It turns on the toolbar in viewDidLoad and offers a button to toggle the toolbar on and off.
// Test_VC.m
#import "Test_VC.h"
#implementation Test_VC
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
// for testing to turn the toolbar on and off
UIBarButtonItem *sampleButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]
initWithTitle:#"Toggle TB"
style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain
target:self action:#selector(toggleToolbar:)];
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = sampleButton;
// the toolbar should re-appear whenver this view controller is selected
self.navigationController.toolbarHidden = NO;
}
- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewWillAppear:animated];
// if on More..., this line will keep toolbar visible
//[self.navigationController setToolbarHidden:NO animated:NO];
}
- (void)toggleToolbar:(UIBarButtonItem *)sender
{
[self.navigationController setToolbarHidden:!self.navigationController.toolbarHidden animated:YES];
}
#end
To test:
Create a project with numerous tabs, each of which is an instance of this view controller, Test_VC. Have enough tabs so that at least two of these controllers are on the More tab.
Run the app.
Go to the More tab.
Select a "Test_VC" on More (I refer to this as "Test_1"). Notice that the toolbar appears.
Select another Test_VC from More. (I refer to this as "Test_2"). Notice that the toolbar also appears.
Touch "Toggle TB". Notice that the toolbar goes away on Test_2.
Touch More.
Reselect the first Test VC ("Test_1"). Notice that the toolbar is no longer there.
Repeat these tests using Main tab view controllers. Notice that there is no interactions with any others.
In step 4, the toolbar for Test_1 was present. In step 6, the Test_2 toolbar is removed. However, in step 8, the Test_1 toolbar is gone, too, but no change was made to the Test_1 VC.
This demo turns the toolbar on and off via the Toggle TB button. In my app, some of my view controllers simply hide the toolbar in viewDidLoad and some don't. This demo code could be modified to make two view controller versions: some that show the toolbar in viewDidLoad and some that hide the toolbar in viewDidLoad (no need for the Toggle button).
If these view controllers are main tabs (step 9), then each operates independently of the others, as expected.
What I have found: Toolbar visibility on all view controllers launched from More is set by the most recent More view controller that executes viewDidLoad. Thus, viewDidLoad is strange for More tab view controllers.
It's as if there's only one toolbar managed by More. I do not understand this behavior.

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Also, why are you coding all the navigation stuff? It would be much easier implementing them via storyboards and segues.
I hide Navigation Controller in main screen, implement Navigation
Controller in Controller of each Tab Bar. In this case, button Done
works good, but button Back can't move to main screen when click on
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In an iOS run on iOS 6.1 (emulated) and 6.1.3 (physical device) application we show an UIActionSheet from a view with the following code:
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Here is an example of a work flow:
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There are some, in my opinion, strange things about this:
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We use the same code to show an action sheet in other views of the application without any problem
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Please let me know if you want more information.
Update:
If I forcibly call [self setToolbarItems:nil] after the action sheet button event and then update it with the same items as before the Tool bar will show up as intended.
This does not feel as the right way to do it.
Update 2013-05-28:
Thanks to #LOP_Luke I found out that if I do not navigate to the "Comment" view from -(void)actionSheet:(UIActionSheet *)actionSheet clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex but just returned the tool bar will start working again.
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}
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Then it will work for the cancel button, but not for the yes button. The cancel button will also make the toolbar work again after it have been "broken" by the yes button. If I pipe both buttons through this flow (by adding a new method) they will both work.
And still, if I run it at iOs 5.1 it will work no matter which flow I choose.
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-(void) navigateToCommentScreen:(bool) shouldAddComment{
CommentViewController* viewController = [[CommentViewController alloc] init];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:viewController animated:YES];
[viewController setToolbarItems:self.toolbarItems];
}
Otherwise the new view controller will have no toolbar items and the toolbar will be blank.
Edit
I created a navigation controller with a root view controller that has a toolbar with a UISegmented control. I pushed a new view controller onto the navigation stack via a UIActionSheet delegate method and then popped it back. The toolbar was exactly how it should be on the root view controller (the segmented control faded back in as expected). You must be doing something more complicated with your controller with regards to setting the toolbar items that is causing them to disappear. Without seeing your viewController's source methods it's hard to tell what the problem is. Make sure that you are not setting your toolbar items to nil or resetting them with an empty array somehow.

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Typical situations
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Have you tried the following for dismissing once you're in?
[self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
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...
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}
The duplicated popViewControllerAnimated call is a bit ugly, but the only way I could get this to work in my currently-tired state.

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