It is up to the container view controller to set up any necessary connections between itself and the embedded view controller, in its prepareForSegue:sender: method. In iOS programming, we have a pattern for this style of communication betwixt view controllers. You can read about it in “Coordinating Efforts Between View Controllers” in the *View Controller Programming Guide for iOS”. But I think i
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