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 static cell table. you can do the following:
override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, willDisplayCell cell: UITableViewCell, forRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) { cell.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor() }