Last night I decided to upgrade to Xcode 5 and take a look at my current project. After updating my storyboards to the new UI everything looked great and ran fine. Since I
If you are using a custom UITableViewCell and invoking it from storyboard/xib you can use the following code.
@implementation YourCustomTableViewCell - (void) awakeFromNib { self.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor]; }