Create an NSManagedObject Without Saving?

I would recommend creating the managed object and inserting into your managed object context as normal. You will have a reference to the managed object, i.e.:

GuestInfo* guest = (GuestInfo *)[NSEntityDescription insertNewObjectForEntityForName:@"GuestInfo" inManagedObjectContext:managedObjectContext];

Then if the user cancels, just delete it from the managed object context like this:

[guest deleteInContext:managedObjectContext];

The managed object context is designed as a scratchpad for you to create and delete objects in it like this.

Another option you might consider is calling:

[managedObjectContext rollback]

if the user cancels. i.e. you would create the managed object in the managed object context, but if the user cancels, you undo or rollback the state of the managed object context to how it was at the last time it was saved. See the "Undo Management" section of the Apple's "Using Managed Objects" doc:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CoreData/Articles/cdUsingMOs.html

Create a NSManagedObjectContext, as a child of your normal context. You can make all the changes in there that you want, and as long as you don't call save, the stuff in there will not get pushed.

For example...

NSManagedObjectContext *moc = [[NSManagedObjectContext alloc] initWithConcurrencyType: NSPrivateQueueConcurrencyType];
moc.parentContext = myCurrentManagedObjectContext;

Now, from within any thread in your program, you can make the following call...

[moc performBlock:^{
    // Do anything you want to with this context... make a new object, whatever.
    // As long as you do not call [moc save], your changes will not propagate
    // up to the parent context, nor saved.
}];