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

Xcode 10, Swift 4

I had this same issue and discovered I left an empty call to viewWillAppear at the bottom of my tableViewController. Once I removed the empty override function the row no longer stayed highlighted upon return to the tableView view.

problem func

override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
  // need to remove this function if not being used.
}

removing empty function solved my problem.