How to suppress the "Current Location" callout in map view

Question

Tapping the pulsating blue circle representing the userLocation brings up a "Current Location" callout. Is there a way to suppress that?

score 18 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 06 '16 at 17:06

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There's a property on the annotation view you can change, once the user location has been updated:

- (void)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView didUpdateUserLocation:(MKUserLocation *)userLocation
{
    MKAnnotationView *userLocationView = [mapView viewForAnnotation:userLocation];   
    userLocationView.canShowCallout = NO;
}

edited Nov 06 '16 at 17:06

Patrick

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answered Apr 23 '12 at 16:19

jowie

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Sometimes location cannot be determined and MKUserLocation turns gray. Callout is still being displayed in that case. This answer is not correct. – pronebird Jan 09 '17 at 12:29
do this alone doesn't work for me on iOS 10. handling in `viewForAnnotation` works. – Nicholas Ng Jul 13 '17 at 21:38

score 16 · Answer 2 · 2011-11-30T02:27:41.160

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You can set the title to blank to suppress the callout:

mapView.userLocation.title = @"";

Edit:
A more reliable way might be to blank the title in the didUpdateUserLocation delegate method:

-(void)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView didUpdateUserLocation:(MKUserLocation *)userLocation
{
    userLocation.title = @"";
}

or in viewForAnnotation:

- (MKAnnotationView *)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView viewForAnnotation:(id<MKAnnotation>) annotation
{
    if ([annotation isKindOfClass:[MKUserLocation class]])
    {
        ((MKUserLocation *)annotation).title = @"";
        return nil;
    }

    ...
}

Setting the title in the delegate methods lets you be certain you have a real userLocation instance to work with.

edited Nov 30 '11 at 02:27

answered Nov 29 '11 at 23:34

Thanks! I knew i could change the title and subtitle but didn't know setting the title to a blank string would suppress it. – charudatta Nov 30 '11 at 23:24
Answer by @jowie is better. Use that method instead. – Jan 26 '14 at 15:35
@Anna been fiddling but haven't had success - any thoughts as to how to suppress the default callout bubble entirely (as above, and yes, @jowie answer probably better) without blocking `mapView:didSelectedAnnotationView:` to be called? – Will Von Ullrich May 03 '17 at 16:32

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 03 '18 at 12:44

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Swift 4

// MARK: - MKMapViewDelegate

func mapViewDidFinishLoadingMap(_ mapView: MKMapView) {
    if let userLocationView = mapView.view(for: mapView.userLocation) {
        userLocationView.canShowCallout = false
    }
}

answered Mar 03 '18 at 12:44

Włodzimierz Woźniak

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mapView.view(for: mapView.userLocation) seems like the most elegant option indeed! You can also leverage this in the ```mapView(_ mapView: MKMapView, viewFor annotation: MKAnnotation)``` callback to group it together with all other annotation views – thiezn Sep 14 '19 at 06:34

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 17 '18 at 21:29

Swift 4 - Xcode 9.2 - iOS 11.2

// MARK: - MKMapViewDelegate

func mapView(_ mapView: MKMapView, viewFor annotation: MKAnnotation) -> MKAnnotationView? {
  if let userLocation = annotation as? MKUserLocation {
    userLocation.title = ""
    return nil
  }
  // ...
}

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 05 '17 at 23:48

I have two ways to help you:

suppress in the mapViewDidFinishLoadingMap

func mapViewDidFinishLoadingMap(_ mapView: MKMapView) {
mapView.showsUserLocation = true
//suppress the title
mapView.userLocation.title = "My Location"
//suppress other params

}

suppress in the didUpdate

func mapView(_ mapView: MKMapView, didUpdate userLocation: MKUserLocation) {
    //suppress the title
    mapView.userLocation.title = "My Location"
    //suppress other params
}

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered May 11 '18 at 16:22

SWIFT Version

We need to set the user MKAnnotationView property canShowCallout to false when mapView adds the user MKAnnotationView

func mapView(_ mapView: MKMapView, didAdd views: [MKAnnotationView]) {
    for view in views {
        if view.annotation is MKUserLocation {
            view.canShowCallout = false
        }
    }
}

G Clovs · Answer 7 · 2020-07-22T11:18:23.707

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Hey there is an updated easy solution

Swift:

mapView.userLocation.title = "";

.Net for iOS (Xamarin.iOS)

NativeMap.UserLocation.Title = "";

Regards ;)

edited Jul 22 '20 at 11:18

answered Jul 22 '20 at 11:10

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Please don't post identical answers to multiple questions. Instead, tailor the answer to the question asked. If the questions are exact duplicates of each other, please vote/flag to close instead. – Yunnosch Aug 25 '20 at 19:30

How to suppress the "Current Location" callout in map view

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