Question

Is it possible to change the frame of UITableViewController’s UITableView frame inside Interface Builder? I want to make my table, which I instantiate in IB, a little bit narrower.

Answer 1

You can change it in IB but unless you customize your view controller somehow, it will set it be full screen (module enclosing controllers like nav, tab bar, split view, etc.) That’s just the way view controllers work.

From the Apple docs:

When a view controller is displayed on screen, its root view is
typically resized to fit the available space, which can vary depending
on the window’s current orientation and the presence of other
interface elements such as the status bar.

You can create another UIView to hold your table view and then have more control over the table view sizing, But then you won’t be a table view controller and will have to implement some of the things that table view controller provides you, e.g., deselectRowAtIndexPath on viewDidAppear.