Disable swipe back gesture in Swift

Question

Been looking around on here for a while but can\'t seem to find a working solution.

I\'m trying to disable the swipe to go back to previous view gesture, in Swift.

Answer 1

RowanPD's logic for Swift 4

private var popGesture: UIGestureRecognizer?

override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewDidAppear(animated)

    if navigationController!.responds(to: #selector(getter: UINavigationController.interactivePopGestureRecognizer)) {
        self.popGesture = navigationController!.interactivePopGestureRecognizer
        self.navigationController!.view.removeGestureRecognizer(navigationController!.interactivePopGestureRecognizer!)
    }

}

override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillDisappear(animated)

    if let gesture = self.popGesture {
        self.navigationController!.view.addGestureRecognizer(gesture)
    }

}

Answer 2

If requirement is to show side menu on some of the screens then add AddScreenEdgePanGesture on this specific view instead of navigationController view

replace it

SideMenuManager.default.menuAddScreenEdgePanGesturesToPresent(toView: self.navigationController?.view)

with this

SideMenuManager.default.menuAddScreenEdgePanGesturesToPresent(toView: self.view)

Answer 3

This is something you missed if it doesn't work after you tried all.

1. Add navigationController?.interactivePopGestureRecognizer?.isEnabled = false to your viewWillAppear(animated:) method.
2. if it doesn't work, remove navigation delegate from the view controller. Check again if your view controller is confirming UINavigationControllerDelegate, UIGestureRecognizerDelegate protocols. if so, just remove it.

Answer 4

I was able to do this by returning false in gestureRecognizerShouldBegin

class ViewController2: UIViewController, UIGestureRecognizerDelegate {
...
override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
    self.navigationController?.interactivePopGestureRecognizer.delegate = self
}

func gestureRecognizerShouldBegin(gestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer) -> Bool {
    return false
}