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

I am using CoreData so the code that worked for me was a combination of ideas from various answers, in Swift:

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