PFUser.current() always returns nil

Question

In the viewDidLoad() of the Initial View Controller in my app I run this:

let currentUser = PFUser.current()

        if currentUser != nil{

        self.performSegue(withIdentifier: "toTabs", sender: self)
    }

currentUser is always nil.

I run PFUser.enableAutomaticUser() in the AppDelegate.Swift after I configure the parse client as per the latest parse server Ios SDK. This should make it so that when ever a user is logged in they stay logged in unless a logout command is run. I have no idea why this isn't happening.

Zekep Zekep · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-10T14:40:02

After much debugging, I realized that PFUser.enableAutomaticUser() was functioning normally. The problem was that the self.performSegue(withIdentifier: "toTabs", sender: self) wasn't dispatched to the main queue. I fixed this by changing my code to:

 let currentUser = PFUser.current()

    if currentUser?.username != nil{

        print(currentUser!)

        DispatchQueue.main.async(){

        self.performSegue(withIdentifier: "toTabs", sender: self)

        }

    }else{

        print("No current User")
  }

Thanks, to all of you for your help, and I'm sorry to have wasted your time with this.

PFUser.current() always returns nil

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