dismiss current view controller AFTER presenting new view controller - swift

Disclaimer

So unless you absolutely need to modally present your new VC, then I recommend just performing a segue between the two VCs. It seems that you are only presenting it modally because you want to manually dismiss it later from the original VC. Not only is using a segue this easier in my opinion, but it will also allow you to use the method I've outlined below.

Solution

This likely isn't the most elegant method, but you could pass the instance of the old VC through prepareForSegue to the next VC, and then dismiss it in the new VC's viewDidLoad.

For example, in your new VC you could have something like this:

class NewVC: UIViewController {

    ...
    var prevVC: PrevVC!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        prevVC.dismiss(animated: false, completion: nil)
    }

}

So when your newVC loads, it dismisses the previous VC. All you would need to do in your prevVC class is pass on the instance in prepareForSegue like so.

class PrevVC: UIViewController {
    ...
    override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
        if let destinationVC = segue.destination as? NewVC {

            destinationVC.prevVC = self

        }
    }

}

Then of course you would just have to present the newVC when you want and then everything else would be taken care of.

If you want to present VC B from VC A and want to dismiss VC A while Presenting, you can use this code:

You write this code in your VC A from which Button you want to present the VC B.

let parentVC = presentingViewController
dismiss(animated: true) {
    let vc = self.storyboard!.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier...)
    parentVC.present(vc, animated: true)`enter code here`
}

I think the best way will be to dismiss the current VC when you actually go back. That means, present your destinationController using the current VC and then when you go back, dismiss both VC's