iOS 7: Custom container view controller and content inset

Question

I have a table view controller wrapped in a navigation controller. The navigation controller seems to automatically apply the correct content inset to the table view controller

Answer 1

Thanks to Johannes Fahrenkrug's hint, I figured out the following: automaticallyAdjustsScrollViewInsets indeed only seems to work as advertised when the child view controller's root view is a UIScrollView. For me, this means the following arrangement works:

Content view controller inside Navigation controller inside Custom container view controller.

While this doesn't:

Content view controller inside Custom container view controller inside Navigation controller.

The second option, however, seems more sensible from a logical point of view. The first option probably only works because the custom container view controller is used to affix a view to the bottom of the content. If I wanted to put the view between the navigation bar and the content, it wouldn't work that way.