iOS - How to check if a modal view is present

Are you checking the presence of a modal view controller from the parent view controller? If so, you can just check that view controller's modalViewController property:

BOOL modalPresent = (self.modalViewController);

If you want to check for a particular modal view controller, you can get the modal view controller's class name like this:

NSString *modalClassName = NSStringFromClass([self.modalViewController class]);

You can check using: self.presentedViewController, which returns The view controller that is presented by this view controller, or one of its ancestors in the view controller hierarchy.

What worked for me is following:

// this is the trick: set parent view controller as application's window root view controller
UIApplication.sharedApplication.delegate.window.rootViewController = viewController;

// assert no modal view is presented
XCTAssertNil(viewController.presentedViewController);

// simulate button tap which shows modal view controller
[viewController.deleteButton sendActionsForControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

// assert that modal view controller is presented
XCTAssertEqualObjects(viewController.presentedViewController.class, MyModalViewController.class);

As far as I tested it, this works for iOS7 and iOS8. Didn't try on iOS6 however.