How to deselect a selected UITableView cell?

Question

I am working on a project on which I have to preselect a particular cell.

I can preselect a cell using -willDisplayCell, but I can\'t deselect it when t

Answer 1

Swift 3

I've run into this as well - when you navigate or unwind back to the table view it usually doesn't deselect the previously selected row for you. I put this code in the table view controller & it works well:

override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    if let lastSelectedRow = tableView.indexPathForSelectedRow {
        tableView.deselectRow(at: lastSelectedRow, animated: true)
    }
}