Question

Grouped UITableViews don’t appear to automatically animate the deselection of a row in the same way that plain UITableViews do, for example when a UITableViewController appears again after a detail view controller is pushed and subsequently popped. The iPhone Settings app does appear to implement this behaviour however.

I have tried to implement the behaviour in the viewWillAppear method of my grouped UITableViewController class but it simply has no effect:

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {

[super viewWillAppear:animated];

//If returning from an edit then animate the deselection of the previously selected row
if ([self currentIndexPath] != nil) 
{
    [[self tableView] deselectRowAtIndexPath:[self currentIndexPath] animated:YES];
    [self setCurrentIndexPath:nil];
}
...

The row and section properties of [self currentIndexPath] are always correct and valid according to my UITableView but the row deselection still does not animate. I’ve also tried deselecting the row using the following, again without success:

[[self tableView] deselectRowAtIndexPath:[[self tableView] indexPathForSelectedRow] animated:YES];

Please could someone help to shed some light on how this behaviour is implemented?

Answer 1

Is your indexpath correct?

I’ve absolutely no problems with this. Did you connect your TableView with self.tableview (if using an outlet connection)?

Best,
Christian