Question

I have a custom Cell for my TableView, with an ImageView on it.

Why is the ImageView only visible when the cell is highlighted?

The cells are created thusly:

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"Cell"];

    Site *site = [self.dataController objectInListAtIndex:indexPath.row];

    [[cell textLabel] setText:site.description];
    return cell;
}

Answer 1

Check out: Custom UITableViewCell (IB) only shows in selected state

The quick synopsis of it “Filling the standard UITableViewCell.textLabel.text seems to overwrite the PrototypeCells”. So it would appear you have to create and add a different text label.