UIActivityViewController not working after Cancel - ios

I am using an instance of UIActivityViewController in a universal app. It works absolutely perfectly on the iPad. Nearly, but not quite on the iPhone.
I present it using:
[self presentViewController:self.activityViewController animated:YES completion:nil];
It displays the available activities correctly and if I choose one, it works. I can then tap on the Share button again and repeat with the same or a different activity as often as I like, so long as I complete the activity.
If I Cancel from the UIActivityViewController, all is well; but if I cancel from, say, Mail or Message, the next time I tap on Share, nothing happens. If I get impatient and tap again, I get the following error:
'Application tried to present modally an active controller .'
I've tried dismissing the controller before presenting it a second time, but it doesn't think it is dismissible. I've also tried presenting it from the root/navigation controller as well as the tableviewcontroller, but get the equivalent error (i.e. the app tried to present the root controller).
I see there are lots of 'odd' problems with UIActivityViewController, but I can't see anything relevant to my problem.

The problem was due to the example code I'd used. I assumed that the dismiss code was being executed, when it wasn't!
I ended up implementing UIPopoverControllerDelegate and implementing:
- (void)popoverControllerDidDismissPopover:(UIPopoverController *)popoverController
{
[self setPopoverActivity:nil];
}
This fixed it!

this happened to me too, i saw your answer and i didn't understand it, because that "setPopoverActivity" wasn't recognized. So i started do some changes and this solved just doing the init of the "UIActivityViewController" inside the action void instead on viewDidLoad, where it was at first place.
- (void) flipView {
self.activityViewController =
[[UIActivityViewController alloc] initWithActivityItems:self.dataToShare
applicationActivities: nil];
self.activityViewController.excludedActivityTypes = #[UIActivityTypePrint,UIActivityTypeSaveToCameraRoll,UIActivityTypeAssignToContact, UIActivityTypeAddToReadingList];
[self presentViewController:self.activityViewController animated:YES completion:nil];
}
Hope it helps!

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The popoverviewcontroller is dismissed using an unwind segue, bringing us back to the detailviewcontroller
Now, after the popover is done being dismissed, I would like to refresh the pages on the pagecontroller, since the action the user takes has changed the data.
I would also like to display an alert notifying the user about whether they were successful.
So I tried putting this code in the pageViewcontroller
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I thought of putting the code in one of the respective viewDidAppear methods, but for some reason viewDidAppear does not get called for either the pageviewcontroller or the detailview controller after I dismiss the popup.
So at this point I have no idea how to make this alert appear.
Do I need to post my full code, or is my problem apparent with the details I've included?
Thanks - based on your comment ... long ago in a distant version of iOS I performed all the possible segues and noted what gets called when and have a table of that that I based my answer on. I must admit, nowadays I get most done using the presentation controller delegate.
Anyhow, to reply to your question, when you pop or modally present a controller, the controller that is being presented will message beingPresented and beingDismissed when it is done and you might be able to use this for what you are trying to do.
When you push a controller it will message isMovingToParentViewController when shown and isMovingFromParentViewController when dismissed, again in the controller being presented.
Back to a pop ... it will message prepareForSegue in the presenting VC and viewWillAppear and viewDidAppear in the presented VC and, when dismissing, will message only viewWillDisappear and viewDidDisappear in the presented VC, thus your problem. At least it will also message beingDismissed as mentioned and if you can use that I am really glad for you.

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When run on an iPad, I can't get to the Help screen and get the following runtime error:
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}else{
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}
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For some reason, when I try to open a view controller via modal segue, it opens up two of the same type. Why is this happening?
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HomeViewController
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}
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Use a button to turn a page in a page-based ios application?

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I need to check if there is still a modal view over the root view controller.
The problem I am facing is that I have a second modal view coming from some thread that needs to be displayed. I want to delay the second modal view until the first one is gone.
I cannot just launch it after the first is dismissed because the second modal view is conditional.
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use performSelector:afterDelay:0.1
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if (hiddenByModal) {
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}];
}
else{
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completion(YES);
}
}
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