Why does UITableViewCell remain highlighted?

Question

What would cause a table view cell to remain highlighted after being touched? I click the cell and can see it stays highlighted as a detail view is pushed. Once the detail

Answer 1

The most clean way to do it is on viewWillAppear:

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];
    // Unselect the selected row if any
    NSIndexPath*    selection = [self.tableView indexPathForSelectedRow];
    if (selection) {
        [self.tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:selection animated:YES];
    }
}

This way you have the animation of fading out the selection when you return to the controller, as it should be.

Taken from http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=577677

Swift version

override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewDidAppear(animated)

    // deselect the selected row if any
    let selectedRow: IndexPath? = tableView.indexPathForSelectedRow
    if let selectedRowNotNill = selectedRow {
        tableView.deselectRow(at: selectedRowNotNill, animated: true)
    }
}