How to remove old ViewControllers from stack

Question

I wonder how I can remove my old VC's from the stack?

When I start my app there is a Hamburger icon/menu button in the header.

What I want to do is when a user logs into my app I want to set the VC/ Account page to be the root view so that I don't see underlying VC's when looking in the inspector.

So more or less instead of having a back button I want to add a menu button in the header on the account page.

I already tried this but I can't get it to work:

let storyboard: UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: NSBundle.mainBundle())
let yourViewController: ViewController = storyboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("respectiveIdentifier") as! ViewController

let navigationController = self.window?.rootViewController as! UINavigationController
navigationController.setViewControllers([yourViewController], animated: true)

@Mr.T In the VC that comes before the last VC that I want to make the root VC — Kiwo Tew, Oct 27 '15 at 12:54
can u pls clarify that you want to remove the VC from navigation stack or from the app memory stack ? — Teja Nandamuri, Oct 27 '15 at 13:01
@Mr.T what is the difference? I want to reset my navigation stack I guess. Making the account page the new root one — Kiwo Tew, Oct 27 '15 at 13:06
This question could be helpful. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15774003/changing-root-view-controller-of-a-ios-window — ntsh, Oct 27 '15 at 13:49
Why you do not use `UIViewController` instead of `UINavigationViewController`? Use `presentViewController` to show a view and dismiss it when another view controller shown. — Saif Hamed, Oct 27 '15 at 15:33

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 08 '16 at 09:07

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I think you can use:

navigationController!.viewControllers.removeAtIndex((navigationController?.viewControllers.count)! - 2)

Use this after your new controller is loaded, so this basically removes the controller previous to the last on the stack. Let me know if you have any issues implementing it.

edited Dec 08 '16 at 09:07

insys

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answered Jun 30 '16 at 17:08

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How to remove old ViewControllers from stack

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