ios 8 tableview reloads automatically when view appears after pop

Question

I have a table view, onclick of 7th row, I push another view. Then when I come back using pop, tableview is reloaded automatically in ios8. It does not happen is ios 7.

Answer 1

I had the same problem and this is how I fixed it:

According to the Apple docs:

UITableView overrides the layoutSubviews method of UIView 
so that it calls reloadData only when you create a new 
instance of UITableView or when you assign a new data source.

In my case I was setting the table view's dataSource to nil in viewWillDisappear: and setting it back to self in viewWillAppear: thus causing the data to be reloaded.

The 'automatic' reload went away when I moved the dataSource assignment to viewDidLoad

Hope this helps!