I want to delete this comment, haha now it's working just removed my gradient layers on the cell

You can achieve the desired result in iOS 13 like this. You have to make sure that the modalPresentation style that you're changing to .fullScreen is being set on the proper viewController. In other words, make sure to set .fullScreen on the UINavigationController instead since it's the one being presented and because it's the parent of myViewController. @objc fileprivate func handleMultipleAppsTap(gesture: UIGestureRecognizer) { let collectionView = gesture.view var superview = collectionView?.superview while superview != nil { if let cell = superview as? TodayMultipleAppCell { guard let indexPath = self.collectionView.indexPath(for: cell) else { return } let appFullscreenController = TodayMultipleAppsController(mode: .fullscreen) let fullscreenNavigationController = BackEnabledNavigationController(rootViewController: appFullscreenController) appFullscreenController.apps = self.items[indexPath.item].apps fullscreenNavigationController.modalPresentationStyle = .fullScreen navigationController?.present(fullscreenNavigationController, animated: true) return } superview = superview?.superview } }