How to remove the "fuzzy" drop shadow in the UIPopoverController

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I don't want the drop shadow when the UIPopoverController's view appears. Is there a way to remove this drop shadow look?

score 12 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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Not straight forward, but since iOS 5, you can make your own custom popover background using UIPopoverBackgroundView.

See the answer for this question: Using UIPopoverBackgroundView class. It's pointing to a good tuto.

Then, in the initWithFrame of your UIPopoverBackgroundView implementation, you can use a clearColor for the drop shadow. Using offset and radius did not work for me.

- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame
{
    self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
    if (self) {

        self.layer.shadowColor = [[UIColor clearColor] CGColor];
    }
    return self;
}

edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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answered Feb 13 '13 at 14:29

niko34

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This is the answer. As long as your stuff looks good and behaves properly, it will make it through review. – QED Feb 26 '13 at 20:31

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 19 '13 at 13:43

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You just have to use your custom UIPopoverBackgroundView and there implement this function:

+ (BOOL)wantsDefaultContentAppearance {
    return NO;
}

answered Dec 19 '13 at 13:43

Oriol

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Does not get called; – Konstantin Jul 16 '19 at 15:33

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 09 '11 at 03:04

The shadow is an attribute of the popover view's layer. If you could get access to the layer, you could set it's shadow radius to 0.0 and shadow offset to {0.0, 0.0}. However, it looks like the view must be a private ivar of the popover controller, so there's not an easy way to get to it. Moreover, if you're looking to distribute this app through the app store, using a private ivar and changing the look of standard UI elements both are likely to get your app rejected.

How to remove the "fuzzy" drop shadow in the UIPopoverController

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