Remove or edit user location blue pulsing circle

Question

I'm trying to change the radius and color of the blushing blue circle that's created around a current user's location a MapKit? After searching for answers I found an old question Change User Location Blue Pulsing Circle Radius but the answer is an old objective-C service that costs money. Is there anything new in swift that would make this task easier, or is there a way to just remove the pulsing blue circle all together

Answer 1

The blue color for the user location is based on the tint color of your map view, changing this will set the new color for the user location circle.

//Objective-C 
mapView.tintColor = [UIColor redColor];

//Swift
mapView.tintColor = redColor() 

If you wish to remove or replace the user location circle with something different you can change the didAnnotation delegate method.

-(void)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView didAddAnnotationViews:(NSArray *)views
{
    MKAnnotationView *usrLoc = [mapView viewForAnnotation:mapView.userLocation];
    usrLoc.hidden = YES;
}