UITableViewCell textColor will not change with userInteractionEnabled = NO

Question

I am trying to simply change the color of my UILabel using the textColor property and it will not work when userInteraction is disabled, this does

Answer 1

Ok I know how to fix this but it does NOT make any sense at all, the problem is this line:

cell.userInteractionEnabled = NO;

If removed the textColor changes, the odd thing is that if i change the user interaction at the end after changing the textColor the color changes!

Is this a bug?. I hope this answer helps anyone trying to figure this out as it does not make any sense at all, and there is no documentation about this.

Answer 2

Please check my answer to a similar question:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/18552074/921573

Setting the enabled property on the textLabels accordingly fixes this:

cell.userInteractionEnabled = (indexPath.row % 2) == 0;
cell.textLabel.enabled = cell.isUserInteractionEnabled;
cell.detailTextLabel.enabled = cell.isUserInteractionEnabled;