Hide selected controllers you don't want to appear in a UITabBarController from the Storyboard

UITabBarController+HideViews.h

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface UITabBarController (HideViews)

@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *hideViews;

@end

UITabBarController+HideViews.m

#import "UITabBarController+HideViews.h"

static NSString *syntaxSeparator = @",";

@implementation UITabBarController (HideViews)

@dynamic hideViews;

/**
 *  Setter of hideViews User Defined Runtime Attributes
 *
 *  @param hideViews, list of all Controller that we should hide / remove
 *          hideViews's format : ViewController1,ViewController2,...
 */
-(void)setHideViews:(NSString *)hideViews{
    // Do something if there are some childs
    if(self.viewControllers){
        NSMutableArray<__kindof UIViewController *>  * _Nullable viewControllers = (NSMutableArray*)self.viewControllers;
        NSMutableSet *controllerToHide = [NSMutableSet new];
        // Add all controllers to hide in a set (if there is a class corresponding to them)
        for(NSString *viewToHide in [hideViews componentsSeparatedByString:syntaxSeparator])
            if(NSClassFromString(viewToHide))
                [controllerToHide addObject:NSClassFromString(viewToHide)];
        if(controllerToHide.count > 0){
            // Find out all controller wanted
            for(UIViewController *vc in self.viewControllers){
                __weak UIViewController *vcCopy = vc;
                // We don't want to hide an UINavigationController, except whether the user said so
                if([vc isKindOfClass:[UINavigationController class]] && ![controllerToHide containsObject:[vc class]])
                    vcCopy = [(UINavigationController*)vc topViewController];
                // Remove it
                if([controllerToHide containsObject:[vcCopy class]])
                    [viewControllers removeObject:vc];
            }
            // Update itself
            [self setViewControllers:viewControllers];
        }
    }
}

@end

Adding this UITabBarController's category in your project, you can avoid some views you don't want to display in your app (for any reasons).
Then to define which controller you don't want to take part of the journey, just define a runtime attribute on the UITabBarController you want and name it "hideViews", see the example below: