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Asked: 2026-05-12T05:40:41+00:00

I have a UITabBarController which is switching between tabs just fine. The only issue

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I have a UITabBarController which is switching between tabs just fine. The only issue I have is that sometimes it takes up to 3 seconds to respond (call didSelectViewController).

This only occurs when I am switching between pages with quite a few elements, UIViews and UILabels and such. It is instant to respond when it doesn’t have any views to add and remove.

I think that it should call didSelectViewController before doing anything else on receiving a touch, but this does not seem to be the case. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can speed up my app?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I expect your app is taking a long time to render the view. I suggest stepping through the viewWillAppear: method to see if you are running a slow query or doing something else that takes a lot of time when the view is shown. If so, you might be able to use a cache or show a placeholder page while that is happening. If the app is slow because you really do have so many UIViews, think about using a custom-rendered view instead, or a UITableView and only loading the sub views as they are needed.

    In iPhone OS 3.0 has tabBarController:shouldSelectViewController: which gets called after the touch, but before the tab is actually selected.

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