iOS 10.0 UIRefreshControl not showing indicator

Question

I am using a UITableView Which has a Pull down to refresh function but the spinner for pull down to refresh is not showing up when I call the [self.refreshControl beginRefre

Answer 1

Delaying call to refresh in viewDidLoad worked for me:

    dispatch_after(dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, (int64_t)(0.1 * NSEC_PER_SEC)), dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
        [self.refreshControl beginRefreshing];
});

Answer 2

In iOS10, we should add the UIRefreshControl using setRefreshControl of UITableView or UICollectionView.

if([self.tableView respondsToSelector:@selector(setRefreshControl:)]) {
    [self.tableView setRefreshControl:self.refreshControl];
}
else {
    [self.tableView addSubview:self.refreshControl];
}
[self.refreshControl layoutIfNeeded];
[self.refreshControl beginRefreshing];

Answer 3

I was only able to fix this by calling, from viewDidLoad():

refreshControl.layoutIfNeeded()

Answer 4

Same as @jpros answer but in swift

if #available(iOS 10.0, *) {
    tableView.refreshControl = refreshControl
} else {
    tableView.addSubview(refreshControl)
}
refreshControl.layoutIfNeeded()
refreshControl.beginRefreshing()

Answer 5

This is a known and reported bug in iOS 10.

Radar rdar://27468436

I'm not sure if there are any workarounds.

Answer 6

You need to call [self.view layoutIfNeeded] to fix it in iOS 10. For my case it was enough to put the call to viewDidLoad (I was using storyboard in that project). For other cases viewWillAppear fits better.

- (void)viewDidLoad
  {
   [super viewDidLoad];
   [self.view layoutIfNeeded];
   ...