Tap tab bar to scroll to top of UITableViewController

Question

Tapping the tab bar icon for the current navigation controller already returns the user to the root view, but if they are scrolled way down, if they tap it again I want it t

Answer 1

 extension UIViewController {    
    func scrollToTop() {
        func scrollToTop(view: UIView?) {
            guard let view = view else { return }

            switch view {
            case let scrollView as UIScrollView:
                if scrollView.scrollsToTop == true {
                    scrollView.setContentOffset(CGPoint(x: 0.0, y: -scrollView.contentInset.top), animated: true)
                    return
                }
            default:
                break
            }

            for subView in view.subviews {
                scrollToTop(view: subView)
            }
        }

        scrollToTop(view: self.view)
    }

}

This is my answer in Swift 3. It uses a helper function for recursive calls and it automatically scrolls to top on call. Tested on a UICollectionViewController embedded into a UINavigationController embedded in a UITabBarController