Question

If you have used Messages application in iOS, you know how we could invoke UITableViewCellAccessoryCheckmark in any message through edit button and then select each bubble/cell for forward or deletion purpose.

I’m trying to do the same in my application. I can tap on edit and UITableViewCellAcessoryCheckMark is shown, but I can’t select the cells using it. What more do I need to implement?

Any help would be appreciated. Here is the code –

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem  = self.editButtonItem;
}

- (UITableViewCellEditingStyle)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView editingStyleForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
        return UITableViewCellAccessoryCheckmark;
}

Answer 1

For a table view as shown in the picture, where one or more cells can be selected with a checkmark symbol, you have to set allowsMultipleSelectionDuringEditing = YES on the table view. This can be done either in viewDidLoad with

self.tableView.allowsMultipleSelectionDuringEditing = YES

or in the Attributes Inspector of the table view in the NIB/Storyboard file by setting “Editing” to “Multiple Selection During Editing”.

The tableView:editingStyleForRowAtIndexPath: method is not needed for this.

(And btw your method returns UITableViewCellAccessoryCheckmark which is a UITableViewCellAccessoryType and not a UITableViewCellEditingStyle.)