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I want to open up the callout for an MKPinAnnotationView programmatically. Eg I drop 10 pins on the map, and want to open up the one closest to me. How would I go about doing this?

Apple has specified the 'selected' parameter for MKAnnotationView's, but discourages setting it directly (this doesn't work, tried it).

For the rest MKAnnotationView only has a setHighlighted (same story), and can ShowCallout method..

Any hints if this is possible at all?

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In your mapViewController create an action method:

- (void)openAnnotation:(id)annotation 
{
    //mv is the mapView
    [mv selectAnnotation:annotation animated:YES];

}

You can then determine the closest annotation based on current location and walking the annotations available in the array.

[mv annotations];

Once the closest annotation is calculated, call:

[self openAnnotation:closestAnnotation];

The mapView should scroll automatically to place your annotation in the center of the display area.

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Chip Coons
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  • Thanks Nate, for fixing the typo. – Chip Coons Jul 24 '12 at 14:54
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    If you know the annotation you want to programmatically select will be in the map view's visible area you can use `[mv annotationsInMapRect:mv.visibleMapRect]`. If you're working with large sets of map annotations this will provide a step up in performance. – John Erck Nov 05 '13 at 01:42
  • True. The MapKit API has expanded since this answer was originally provided. The annotationsInMapRect: was added in iOS 4.2. – Chip Coons Nov 06 '13 at 18:39
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In swift 3 this is updated to:

func openAnnotation(annotation: MkAnnotation) {
_ = [mapView .selectAnnotation(annotation, animated: true)]
}

and can be called using any annotation (this will open the annotation callout view and attempt to center the annotation on the map)

For example using the second annotation in a hypothetical list of annotations.

openAnnotation(annotation: mapView.annotations[1])
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