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I'm sending a push notification from Amazon SNS to an ios app in swift ver. 3. When the push notification arrives the app switches to the second tab bar item on my device as per this SO thread. MyGlobalVariables is a struct updated in AppDelegate.swift and read in the viewcontroller.

AppDelegate.swift

func application(_ application: UIApplication, didReceiveRemoteNotification userInfo: [NSObject : AnyObject]) {
    if let aps = userInfo["aps"] as? NSDictionary {
        if let alert = aps["alert"] as? NSDictionary {
            if let title = alert["title"] as? String {
                MyGlobalVariables.pushTitle = title
            }
            if let body = alert["body"] as? String {
                MyGlobalVariables.pushBody = body
            }
        }
    }
    if self.window!.rootViewController as? UITabBarController != nil {
        let tabbarController = self.window!.rootViewController as! UITabBarController
        tabbarController.selectedIndex = 1
    }
}

In SecondViewController.swift the text is update in viewWillAppear() and all is fine.

override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    pushTitleLabel?.text = MyGlobalVariables.pushTitle
}

If a new push notification with a different title is sent while I am in this tab I'd like the text label to be updated without navigating away and back.

I have tried to refresh the text label by adding this to AppDelegate.swift.

let sVC = SecondViewController()
if let title = alert["title"] as? String {
    MyGlobalVariables.pushTitle = title
    sVC.updateLabel(t: title)
}

And have this function in SecondViewController.swift

func updateLabel(t: String) {
    self.pushTitleLabel?.text = t
}

But I still have to navigate away from the tab and back again to have the text updated, which viewWillAppear() takes care of.

kometen
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The problem is that let sVC = SecondViewController() creates a new instance of the SecondViewController, not a reference to the existing one. You should instead get a reference using the viewControllers property of the tabBarController:

let sVC = tabbarController.viewControllers[1] as! SecondViewController

You can then call the updateLabel method.

pbasdf
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