How to move back to the root view controller in storyboard?

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What I want to do seems pretty simple, but I can't find any answers on the web. I have the login screen as the root view controller and then tab bar controller and in every tab I have a navigation controller. I have used storyboard and the hierarchy is described below, ``` Root VC | --- tabbar controller | ---Navigation Controller | --- VC1 ``` Requirement is to navigate back to the root view controller from VC1. How can we achieve this?

Accepted Answer

I got the resolution to the issues using the "Unwind Segues".

Step 1) The bare minimum you need is to subclass the view controller for your destination view (aka, a view that has popped up previously in navigation and you want to unwind to it) and add a method like this to it (the method name can be anything you want, but it should be unique because all unwind segues in your entire app are listed together):

```
- (IBAction)unwindToViewControllerNameHere:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue {
//nothing goes here
}
```

Step 2) Now, in your source view (aka, the view that you want to unwind from) you simply drag a segue from your button or whatever down to the little green "EXIT" icon at the bottom of your source view. There should now be an option to connect to "- unwindToViewControllerNameHere"

That's it, your segue will unwind when your button is tapped. And we can move to any view controller we want and rest of the view controllers will be released.

How to move back to the root view controller in storyboard?

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