The text is offset wrong by the first launch of UIRefreshControl... later sometimes the refresh text doesn\'t show up at all and just the spiny is visible
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This is definitely an iOS 7 bug, but I haven't figured out exactly what caused it. It appears to have something to do with the view hierarchy — adding my UITableViewController as a child view to a wrapper view controller appeared to fix it for me at first, although the bug is back since iOS 7 GM.
It looks like adding the following code to your UITableViewController after creating the refresh view fixes the positioning issue for good:
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{ [self.refreshControl beginRefreshing]; [self.refreshControl endRefreshing]; });