Question

So I have four view controllers, A, B, C, D and they are shown in that order. Let’s say that I am at view C and I want to go to view D, so I push view controller D into the navigation controller stack, however, what I want is that when D tries to go back it goes directly to view controller B instead of C.

Is there a particular way to achieve this? The logical way is to do popViewController and then pushViewController: C. I tried this and it didn’t work out.

Answer 1

So the order is A->B->C->D right? And from D, when the “Back” button is tapped you want to go to B?
That means popping D and then popping C so you get back to B. That’s what popToViewController:animated: does.
UINavigationController Class Reference

popToViewController:animated:

Pops view controllers until the specified view controller is at the
top of the navigation stack.

Note that this is different from popToRootViewControllerAnimated: