Instead of creating an MKPinAnnotationView, create a plain MKAnnotationView. The MKPinAnnotationView subclass tends to ignore the image property since it’s designed to show the standard red, green, purple pins only (via the pinColor property). When you switch to MKAnnotationView, you’ll have to comment out the animatesDrop line as well since that property is specific to … Read more
Update: When I tried with the iOS 9 SDK the user annotation is no longer removed. You can simply use mapView.removeAnnotations(mapView.annotations) Historical answer (for apps that run on iOS before iOS 9): Try this: NSMutableArray * annotationsToRemove = [ mapView.annotations mutableCopy ] ; [ annotationsToRemove removeObject:mapView.userLocation ] ; [ mapView removeAnnotations:annotationsToRemove ] ; EDIT: Swift … Read more
The latitude must be a number between -90 and 90 and the longitude between -180 and 180.
There are two ways of detecting user interaction with your annotation view. The common technique is to define a callout (that standard little popover bubble that you see when you tap on a pin in a typical maps app) for your MKAnnotationView. And you create the annotation view for your annotation in the standard viewForAnnotation … Read more
When you want to use your own image for an annotation view, you should create an MKAnnotationView instead of an MKPinAnnotationView. MKPinAnnotationView is a subclass of MKAnnotationView so it has an image property but it generally overrides that and draws a pin image (that’s what it’s for). So change the code to: -(MKAnnotationView *)mapView:(MKMapView *)mV … Read more