How to stop UITableView from clipping UITableViewCell contents in iOS 7

Question

As I updated an app of mine from iOS6 to iOS7 I noticed that where in iOS6 cell content was allowed to cross outside of a cell when the clipsToBounds property is set to NO o

Answer 1

You may made chang in the tableview attributes inspector of Clip Subviews.

Answer 2

It looks like the view hierarchy changed slightly in iOS 7 for table view cells.

You can try setting the clips to bounds on the contentView's superview:

[cell.contentView.superview setClipsToBounds:NO];

If you add the following to your sample code and run on ios7 vs ios6, you'll see there's an additional view between the cell view and content view:

[cell.contentView.superview setClipsToBounds:NO];
NSLog(@"%@", cell.contentView.superview);
NSLog(@"%@", cell.contentView.superview.superview);
NSLog(@"%@", cell);

if (self.view.clipsToBounds) {
    NSLog(@"Master clips");
} else {
    NSLog(@"Master no clip");
}