Having problems with an interstitial ad displaying modally in iOS13

Question

Since running the iOS 13 beta I am having issues with my app displaying the interstitial view controller being displayed modally, therefore allowing the user to swipe down to dismiss the ad before the timer counts down.

I understand that modal views are now the default for iOS 13 and I have amended my main view controller to display full screen, however when the ad displays, this is still displayed modally and not full screen.

I have so far tried declaring the view controller, and then requesting it be displayed in full screen, then presenting the ad using the views declaration:

let vc = UIViewController()
vc.modalPresentationStyle = .fullScreen
interstitial.present(fromRootViewController: vc)

if interstitial.isReady {
   if #available(iOS 13, *) {
       interstitial.present(fromRootViewController: self)
       interstitialDidDismissScreen(interstitial)
   } else {
       interstitial.present(fromRootViewController: self)
       interstitialDidDismissScreen(interstitial)
   }

Expected result is that the view for the interstitial ad is displayed full screen so that a user cannot swipe down to dismiss the view before the time runs out.

This works fine in iOS 12.

Answer 1

In case anyone else comes across this post, it was a simple solution in my case.

It appears as though Google had updated their framework but I wasn’t using the latest version of it.

Therefore a simple ‘pod update’ in Terminal updated the dependencies which in turn solved the problem.

I am using CocoaPods to manage my frameworks, but I’m sure for those who aren’t can find the best way to update their own dependencies.