How to make a segue from one viewcontroller to itself without resetting its current state?

Question

I did actually make a segue from my viewcontroller to itself by using a hidden button and then another one that makes the segue. Just for the sake of clarification, say I want to change the view bg color by using a segue. The issue here is that the view returns to its first state as if I run it again because it goes through the viewdidload and the viewdidappear and so. Is there a way or a workaround that I can utilize to continue from the last state of my view?

What do I need to add to this code for example:

- (IBAction)changeColor:(id)sender {
    [self performSegueWithIdentifier:@"changeC" sender:self];
}

- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender
{
    ViewController* controller = [segue destinationViewController];

    controller.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];   
}

Answer 1

I'm not even going to ask why you would ever actually want to do that, but you could just have a BOOL like shouldReloadView, and set that to NO in prepareForSegue:. Then, within viewDidLoad and viewWillAppear just check for that BOOL before doing any setup.