I want to remove the default blue color of uitableview cell selection. I don't want any selection color there. I have not created a custom cell class. I'm customizing the cell by adding labels and buttons over it. I tried doing:
cell.selectioncolor = [UIColor clearcolor]; but it says that this method is deprecated.
In Swift:
cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCell.SelectionStyle.none or simply:
cell.selectionStyle = .none 
cell.selectionStyle = .none code in VC, you'll see the default color show up when you select the cell. You must put that line in your cell subclass if what you want is your custom color showing up.In the Storyboard or XIB Attributes Inspector, set Selection to None.
Objective-C:
cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone; // or [cell setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone]; Swift 3+:
cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.none; // or cell.selectionStyle = .none Swift 2:
cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.None If you want to change it just using Interface Builder Storyboard/Xib, select the cell that you want to remove the "Selection Style Effect" and define it as "None". It'll work like magic as well :D
Swift 3.0
cell.selectionStyle = .none 
// Swift 2.0 cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.None 
selectionStyle determines whether or not you can click on the cell.
It has nothing to do with whether the cell is turned "gray" when you click on it.
The only way to turn off the "gray effect" (when you click on it) is like this:
class YourCell: UITableViewCell { override func didMoveToSuperview() { selectedBackgroundView?.isHidden = true } ... } selectedBackgroundView is indeed available on the storyboard.I wouldn't fool with it because the lifecycle is so strange, but note that these days, indeed you can get at selectedBackgroundView on the storyboard. It's possible you could handle it in there.
Regarding the question on this page, how to "remove the cell highlight color", notice that the @fingiua answer correctly states that you adjust selectedBackgroundView. However, it states that what you do is change the background color.
This used to work in the past to some extent and is still possible in certain situations but it's a hell of a task figuring out when in the lifecycle you have to set the color - because, UIKit itself is constantly setting the color! (For example, if you do it in the obvious didMoveToSuperview or prepareForReuse ... it simply doesn't work.)
This is a great example of how, on the internet, for obscure yet critical issues, there is often a lot of VERY OLD example code on the internet, which gets copied endlessly, which is either just wrong or "half wrong", but still gets copied endlessly.
There's no reason at all you'd fool with the color, because what you want to do is simply ... hide it. So just hide it. This (of course) works reliably (indeed, you can do so anywhere at all in the view cycle, once it's hidden that's the end of it).
selectionStyle to .none and still select the row. The currently highest voted and selected answer is not technically wrong. Please read the documentation for UITableViewCell selectionStyle and UITableViewCell.SelectionStyle. Your updated answer here is no better than setting selectionStyle to .none. It only hides the selection, it doesn't prevent the selection.selectionStyle, if someone actually wants to prevent cell selection, the correct solution is to return nil from the willSelectRowAt delegate method.selectionStyle property affects) nor does it say anything about whether you can select specific rows (you achieve that with the technique mentioned in your second comment).Setting the TableView Selection style to .none was affecting the responsiveness and performance of the tableview in my app (didSelectRowAt indexPath taps were getting delayed). My solution to this problem was to hide the selected background view on awakeFromNib() when the cell is first created:
selectedBackgroundView?.isHidden = true
Try this for swift
cell?.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.None right answer should be:
cell.selectedBackgroundView?.backgroundColor = <choose your color>
The selection type is a different property that when set to .none produces what you want PLUS other unwanted side-effects.
If you do not want the cell to be highlighted, then make its background view's color the same as when it is not highlighted.
Swift 5.4 , just put the selectionStyle = .none
Example:
class TableViewCell: UITableViewCell { override func awakeFromNib() { super.awakeFromNib() selectionStyle = .none } 
Swift 5:
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell { let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "cell") cell.selectionStyle = .none return cell } 