UITableViewCell doesn't get deselected when swiping back quickly

Question

I\'ve now updated three of my apps to iOS 7, but in all three, despite them not sharing any code, I have the problem where if the user swipes to go back in the navigation contro

Answer 1

This solution animates the row deselection along with the transition coordinator (for a user-driven VC dismiss) and re-applies the selection if the user cancels the transition. Adapted from a solution by Caleb Davenport in Swift. Only tested on iOS 9. Tested as working with both user driven (swipe) transition and the old-style "Back" button tap.

In the UITableViewController subclass:

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];

    // Workaround. clearsSelectionOnViewWillAppear is unreliable for user-driven (swipe) VC dismiss
    NSIndexPath *indexPath = self.tableView.indexPathForSelectedRow;
    if (indexPath && self.transitionCoordinator) {
        [self.transitionCoordinator animateAlongsideTransition:^(id<UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinatorContext>  _Nonnull context) {
            [self.tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:animated];
        } completion:^(id<UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinatorContext>  _Nonnull context) {
            if ([context isCancelled]) {
                [self.tableView selectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:NO scrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionNone];
            }
        }];
    }
}

Answer 2

I'm using

[tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:YES];

at the end of method

(void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

Like this:

(void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

{

    //doing something according to selected cell...

    [tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:YES];
}

Answer 3

You can try to set

self.clearsSelectionOnViewWillAppear = YES;

in a UITableViewController or

[self.tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:[self.tableView indexPathForSelectedRow] animated:NO];

in viewWillAppear, maybe before calling [super viewWillAppear:animated]; If your UItableView is not inside an UITableViewController you must deselect the cells manually:

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    [tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:YES]; 
}

Answer 4

Simple Swift 3/4 Answer:

override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    if tableView.indexPathForSelectedRow != nil {
        self.tableView.deselectRow(at: tableView.indexPathForSelectedRow! as IndexPath, animated: true)
    }
}