Objective C equivalent to javascripts setTimeout?
The performSelector: family has its limitations. Here is the closest setTimeout equivalent: dispatch_time_t delay = dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, NSEC_PER_SEC * 0.5); dispatch_after(delay, dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^(void){ // do work in the UI thread here }); EDIT: A couple of projects that provide syntactic sugar and the ability to cancel execution (clearTimeout): https://github.com/Spaceman-Labs/Dispatch-Cancel https://gist.github.com/zwaldowski/955123