When navigating back in navigation controller view doesn't load - ios

I have weird situation and have no clue how to debug it. I load three viewControllers in navigation controller. When Im navigating back from there second and first ViewController doesn't display anything just white screen I added print methods everywhere in lifecycle methods and it seems that it loads views but anyway they not visible. What could be the problem?

Yep It's weird, There maybe some code which do something with your view on such events like:
override func viewDidDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewDidDisappear(animated)
// remove some subviews or change constraints.
}
override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillDisappear(animated)
// remove some subviews or change constraints.
}
Please send us a code of the view controller which has the problems and code how exactly you show the controller.

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I've noticed that, when using the long-press back button feature in iOS 14, any properties relating to UINavigationController's view controller stack (.viewControllers, .topViewController, etc.) seem incorrect. Specifically, the order is reversed.
Regarding the .viewControllers property, Apple's docs state:
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If I've got three view controllers in a nav stack like as follows
[ViewController01, ViewController02, ViewController03] and print out the .viewControllers property in viewWillAppear, I get the expected output of:
[ViewController01]
[ViewController01, ViewController02]
[ViewController01, ViewController02, ViewController03]
If I tap the back button from ViewController03, I get the expected output from viewWillAppear in ViewController02:
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I'm not expecting this because ViewController03 isn't, and never was, the root view controller of the navigation stack. As per the docs, I'm expecting:
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Thank you!
I've reproduced this in a small sample app based on a "single view controller" project. Just embed the initial view controller in a nav stack and include the following:
class StubViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillAppear(animated)
print("\(self) will appear. Current nav stack follows:")
print("\(self.navigationController?.viewControllers ?? [])")
}
}
class ViewController: StubViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(TestViewController01(), animated: true)
}
}
class TestViewController01: StubViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(TestViewController02(), animated: true)
}
}
class TestViewController02: StubViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(TestViewController03(), animated: true)
}
}
class TestViewController03: StubViewController {
}
(I'm aware the above is very horrible)
Basically, what's happening here is that you have accidentally looked inside the sausage factory and you've seen how the sausage is made. And it isn't pretty...!
The workaround is: don't do that. Give the view controllers stack a chance to settle down before you look at it:
override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillAppear(animated)
DispatchQueue.main.async {
print("\(self) will appear. Current nav stack follows:")
print("\(self.navigationController?.viewControllers ?? [])")
}
}
Even more simple: just move the code to viewDidAppear.
i'm stuck with this too, but what i've found is navigation controller changed the viewControllers stack because of animation to handle what controller will goes to another in back operation
for example if stack is [vc1, vc2, vc3, vc4] and you are in vc4 and if you call
navigationController.popToRootViewController(animated: true)
stack will be [vc4, vc1] in willShow delegate method.
the only way i found is to set animation to false
navigationController.popToRootViewController(animated: false)
to keep the stack as what it really is

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So the context is the following:
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Screenshots
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