Issue with popping back to Root View controller in a tab bar controller

Question

I am navigating to Tab bar controller with 6 tabs from a RootViewController... I have created back button method in left navbar item which pops back all tab views to RootViewController... Problem arises when i try to pop the 5th or 5th tabview.. the back button doesnt work at all in MoreViewController, 5th tab and 6th tab...

Here's what works: 1)Pops back to RootView from 1 to 4 tabs

2)Pops back to RootView from More View (only first time it works)

3)Pops back to MoreView from 5th/6th View (only first time it works)

Here's what doesnt work: 1)Doesnt pop back to RootView from MoreView

What am i doing wrong?

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
...
   self.tabBarController.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Back" style:UIBarButtonSystemItemDone target:self action:@selector(goBack)];
...
}

Code for goBack method written in each tab

-(void)goBack{

    [self.navigationController popToRootViewControllerAnimated:NO];
}

Its a very strange that 1 to 4 tabs are working but 5 and 6 tab are not working... Did you try [self.navigationController popToRootViewControllerAnimated:YES]; may be it works — Sudha Tiwari
i have tried with popToRootViewControllerAnimated:YES .. it only adds extra animations... but the issue still remains — Shaunak
I post a code please try that and let me know that it works or not — Sudha Tiwari

Sudha Tiwari Sudha Tiwari · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-18T08:44:19

Try this.. May be it will help you

NSArray *viewContrlls=[[self navigationController] viewControllers];
    for( int i=0;i<[ viewContrlls count];i++)
    {
        id obj=[viewContrlls objectAtIndex:i];
        if([obj isKindOfClass:[rootController class]])
        {
            [[self navigationController] popToViewController:obj animated:YES];

            return;
        }
    }

Issue with popping back to Root View controller in a tab bar controller

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