iOS 7 error Warning: Attempt to dismiss from view controller <UINavigationController: 0x1568db40> while a presentation or dismiss is in progress

Question

I have issue in iOS 7 that does not appear in iOS 6.

I have a navigation controller that is displaying another navigation controller to add an employee. This second controller is being presented modally. When I dismiss the second controller either with a "Cancel" or "Done" button, I get an error. Here is the error:

QuickSchedule[880:60b] Warning: Attempt to dismiss from view controller while a presentation or dismiss is in progress!

I am using an unwind segue and dismissing from the first controller using the following relevant code.

This is in ScheduleViewController.m (My main controller window)

- (IBAction)done:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue
{
    if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:@"DoneEditing"]) {
        [[MyManager sharedManager] saveChanges];
        [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:NULL];
    }
}

The connection in the connection inspector for the "Done" button is simply "action -> [unwind done:]"

I had no errors before upgrading to Xcode 5. This all started after upgrading Xcode and my storyboard to iOS 7.

I am getting same error in different spot in my app, but again, it's with a modally presented view controller.

I go from EmployeeViewController to AddEmployeeViewController modally. I get the error again when I return from AddEmployeeViewController.

EmployeeViewController.m

- (IBAction)done:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue
{
    if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:@"ReturnInput"]) {
        AddEmployeeViewController *addController = [segue sourceViewController];
        if (addController.employee) {
            [[MyManager sharedManager] saveChanges];
            [[self tableView] reloadData];
        }
        if (![self.presentedViewController isBeingDismissed]) {
            [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
        }
    }
}

- (IBAction)cancel:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue
{
    if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:@"CancelInput"]) {
        [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:NULL];
    }
}

Here is AddEmployeeViewController.m

- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender {
    if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:@"ReturnInput"]) {
        if ([self.firstNameField.text length] || [self.lastNameField.text length]) {

            Employee *newEmployee = [[MyManager sharedManager] createEmployeeWithFirstName:self.firstNameField.text andLastName:self.lastNameField.text];
            [[MyManager sharedManager] addEmployeeToList:newEmployee];
            self.employee = newEmployee;
        }
    }
}

I am still learning, and I have looked for hours online and cannot find an answer to this. I have tried putting the "saving code" in a completion block. I put it back and tried using nil instead of NULL in the completion block argument. As you can see, I have nil in one spot on a completion block argument and NULL on another. No matter what, the error keeps appearing.

Everything works as far a functionality, I just get this error logged to the console. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Note: I do not get this error with regular pushed navigation controllers. This is only happening on dismissing modally presented view controllers.

Answer 1

I'm surprised that you wouldn't see this same problem in previous versions of Xcode, because I think your problem is calling dismissViewControllerAnimated:completion: in the "done" method. This should have been a problem in iOS 6 as well. The unwind segue does the dismissal for you, so you shouldn't call this method yourself. Try commenting it out, and see if that fixes the problem.