How to pause, resume, remove or invalidate a CADisplayLink in Swift

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A guide on the functions that allow you to stop, start, remove or invalidate a CADisplayLink.

Pause

To pause an active CADisplayLink, set its isPaused property to false.

displayLink.isPaused = false

Resume

To resume an paused CADisplayLink, set its isPaused property to true.

displayLink.isPaused = true

Remove

To remove an active CADisplaylink, call the remove function and pass in the runLoop and mode that you used when you added it.

displayLink.remove(to: .main, forMode: .default)

Invalidate

To invalidate an active CADisplaylink, call the invalidate function.

displayLink.invalidate()

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