iOS 7 UITableView: is it a bug or is it me?

Question

Please see the attached image. In table views in iOS 7, UIKit draws a thin gray vertical line between the accessory view and the reordering control. However, when the table view

Answer 1

This works for Swift 2.1. on iOS 9.2.1. in XCode 7.2.: I tested the code on iPhone 6s, while on 4" devices the separator does not appear.

I have made a subclass of UITableViewCell

Inside of required init(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) I have done this:

required init(coder aDecoder: NSCoder)
{
    super.init(coder: aDecoder)!
    self.textLabel?.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor()
}

You might find the need to set the background color in override func drawRect(rect: CGRect) {} since this solution applies only to a cell create by Interface builder.

The solution works on dev and simulator.