How to stop the viewForAnnotation method from overriding the default user location blue beacon in iOS

Question

Right now I am populating a map view with annotations, and also displaying the user\'s current location. With the viewForAnnotation method, it overrides all annotations with

Answer 1

Check out the documentation here:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/MapKit/Reference/MKMapViewDelegate_Protocol/MKMapViewDelegate/MKMapViewDelegate.html

As it states:

If the object in the annotation parameter is an instance of the MKUserLocation class, you can provide a custom view to denote the user’s location. To display the user’s location using the default system view, return nil.

So you can add a conditional to check for this:

if([annotation isKindOfClass: [MKUserLocation class]]) {
  return nil;
}

Answer 2

Swift 5.0

Put a check at the top of the function to ignore the userLocation:

   func mapView(_ mapView: MKMapView, viewFor annotation: MKAnnotation) -> MKAnnotationView? {
        guard annotation as? MKUserLocation != mapView.userLocation else { return }