UIPopover without any arrows

Question

Is it possible to present a popover without any sort of arrows pointing somewhere?

Answer 1

This works fine for me.

[popoverController presentPopoverFromRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, 20, 20)
                                    inView:self.view 
                  permittedArrowDirections:NULL 
                                  animated:YES];

Enjoy Coding.

Answer 2

In swift 3, you can build a UIPopoverArrowDirection extension for this:

extension UIPopoverArrowDirection {
    public static var noArrow: UIPopoverArrowDirection {
        return UIPopoverArrowDirection(rawValue: 0)
    }
}

and the you can do:

popoverPresentationController!.permittedArrowDirections = .noArrow

Answer 3

Do not use Popovers if you don't want to show arrows. Present your view controller as a Modal and use a UIModalPresentationFormSheet instead.

Example:

UIStoryboard *sb = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"MyStoryBoard" bundle:nil];
UIViewController* viewController = [sb instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"myViewController"];
viewController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFormSheet;
[presenterViewController presentViewController: viewController animated:YES completion:^{

}];

Answer 4

Set the permittedArrowDirections to 0.

permittedArrowDirections:0

Code -

[self.popoverController presentPopoverFromBarButtonItem:anItem   
                                permittedArrowDirections:0
                                                animated:YES];

Zero tells "NoDirection".

Answer 5

Swift4:

popover.permittedArrowDirections = []