UITableViewCell not showing detailTextLabel.text - Swift

Question

The detail (subtitle) text does not appear. The data are available, though, because when a println() call is added, it prints Optional(\"data\") to the console with the expe

Answer 1

If you are setting the text to nil somewhere when you try to set it to a non-nil value the actual view that contains the text will be missing. This was introduced in iOS8. Try setting to an empty space @" " character instead.

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