[ERROR]whose view is not in the window hierarchy modal

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Probably, like me, you have a wrong root viewController I want to display a ViewController in a non-UIViewController context, So I can't use such code: [self presentViewController:] So, I get a UIViewController: [[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] window] rootViewController] For some reason (logical bug), the rootViewController is something other than expected (a normal UIViewController). Then I correct the bug, replacing rootViewController with a UINavigationController, and the problem is gone. shareimprove this answer edited Aug 23 '13 at 7:00 Spynet 2,77131442 answered Jul 24 '13 at 2:30 iCoke 14816

Works like charm – Alejandro Luengo Mar 5 at 21:29 add a comment

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Another potential cause: I had this issue when I was accidentally presenting the same view controller twice. (Once with performSegueWithIdentifer:sender: which was called when the button was pressed, and a second time with a segue connected directly to the button). Effectively, two segues were firing at the same time, and I got the error: Attempt to present X on Y whose view is not in the window hierarchy! shareimprove this answer answered Apr 17 at 19:56 Chris Nolet 2,5112654

2   I had the same error, and your answer here helped me figure out what was going on, it was indeed this error, fixed it because of you sir, thank you, +1 – samouray May 12 at 7:39 I deleted the old segue and connected VC to VC. Is there a way to connect the button to the storyBoard to the VC because that way just keeps erroring for me? – MCB Jul 16 at 22:25 add a comment

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I had the same problem. I had to embed a navigation controller and present the controller through it. Below is the sample code. - (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib. UIImagePickerController *cameraView = [[UIImagePickerController alloc]init]; [cameraView setSourceType:UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera]; [cameraView setShowsCameraControls:NO]; UIView *cameraOverlay = [[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 768, 1024)]; UIImageView *imageView = [[UIImageView alloc]initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"someImage"]]; [imageView setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 768, 1024)]; [cameraOverlay addSubview:imageView]; [cameraView setCameraOverlayView:imageView]; [self.navigationController presentViewController:cameraView animated:NO completion:nil]; // [self presentViewController:cameraView animated:NO completion:nil]; //this will cause view is not in the window hierarchy error } shareimprove this answer

 [self.navigationController presentViewController:cameraView animated:NO completion:nil];
//    [self presentViewController:cameraView animated:NO completion:nil]; //this will cause view is not in the window hierarchy error