UITableViewCell doesn't get deselected when swiping back quickly

Question

I\'ve now updated three of my apps to iOS 7, but in all three, despite them not sharing any code, I have the problem where if the user swipes to go back in the navigation contro

Answer 1

Fabio's answer works well but doesn't give the right look if the user swipes just a little bit and then changes their mind. In order to get that case right you need to save the selected index path and reset it when necessary.

- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewDidAppear:animated];
    self.savedSelectedIndexPath = nil;
}

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewWillDisappear:animated];
    if (self.savedSelectedIndexPath) {
        [self.tableView selectRowAtIndexPath:self.savedSelectedIndexPath animated:NO scrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionNone];
    }
}

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];
    self.savedSelectedIndexPath = self.tableView.indexPathForSelectedRow;

    if (self.savedSelectedIndexPath) {
        [self.tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:self.savedSelectedIndexPath animated:YES];
    }
}

If using a UITableViewController, make sure to disable the built-in clearing:

self.clearsSelectionOnViewWillAppear = NO;

and add the property for savedSelectedIndexPath:

@property(strong, nonatomic) NSIndexPath *savedSelectedIndexPath;

If you need to do this in a few different classes it might make sense to split it out in a helper, for example like I did in this gist: https://gist.github.com/rhult/46ee6c4e8a862a8e66d4