Question

I use UIViewController‘s editButtonItem to control edit mode on my table view.

The problem is that in most apps, when you swipe a row to delete the element, that edit button changes to “Done” state. That way the user can tap “Done” to stop deleting elements.

Done button in a swipe to delete situation

It doesn’t do this in my app

I guess I could change the title and style of the edit button in tableview:editingStyleForRowAtIndexPath:, but isn’t the point of UIViewController‘s editButtonItem to be automatic?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Implementing these two delegate methods solved it for me.
Setting the .editing property of the view controller to YES and back to NO.

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView willBeginEditingRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    self.editing = YES;
}

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didEndEditingRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    self.editing = NO;
}