How can I disable the UITableView selection

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When you tap a row in a UITableView  the row is highlighted and selected  Is it possible to disable this so tapping a row does nothing

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You can also disable selection of row from interface builder itself by choosing NoSelection from the selection option of UITableView Properties  in inspector pane as shown in the below image

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UITableViewCell  cell    self tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath    cell setSelected NO animated NO    cell setHighlighted NO animated NO     Happy coding

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cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone

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From the UITableViewDelegate Protocol you can use the method willSelectRowAtIndexPath  and return nil if you don t want the row selected   In the same way the you can use the willDeselectRowAtIndexPath method and return nil if you don t want the row to deselect

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All you have to do is set the selection style on the UITableViewCell instance using either   Objective-C   cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    or   cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone     Swift 2   cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyle None   Swift 3 and 4 x   cell selectionStyle    none   Further  make sure you either don t implement -tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath  in your table view delegate or explicitly exclude the cells you want to have no action if you do implement it   More info here and here

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I ve been battling with this quite profusely too  having a control in my UITableViewCell prohibited the use of userInteractionEnabled property  I have a 3 cell static table for settings  2 with dates  1 with an on off switch  After playing about in Storyboard IB i ve managed to make the bottom one non-selectable  but when you tap it the selection from one of the top rows disappears  Here is a WIP image of my settings UITableView     If you tap the 3rd row nothing at all happens  the selection will stay on the second row  The functionality is practically a copy of Apple s Calendar app s add event time selection screen   The code is surprisingly compatible  all the way down to IOS2      -  NSIndexPath   tableView   UITableView   tableView willSelectRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath       if  indexPath row    2            return nil            return indexPath      This works in conjunction with setting the selection style to none  so the cell doesn t flicker on touch down events

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From UITableViewDataSource Protocol  inside method cellForRowAt add  let cell   tableView dequeueReusableCell withIdentifier   quot YOUR CELL IDENTIFIER quot   for  indexPath                  cell selectionStyle    none return cell  OR You can goto Storyboard  gt  Select Cell  gt  Identity Inspector  gt  Selection and select none from dropdown

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From the UITableViewDelegate Protocol you can use the method willSelectRowAtIndexPath  and return nil if you don t want the row selected   In the same way the you can use the willDeselectRowAtIndexPath method and return nil if you don t want the row to deselect

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As of iOS 6 0  UITableViewDelegate has tableView shouldHighlightRowAtIndexPath    Read about it in the iOS Documentation    This method lets you mark specific rows as unhighlightable  and implicitly  unselectable  without having to change a cell s selection style  messing with the cell s event handling with userInteractionEnabled   NO  or any other techniques documented here

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The better approach will be   cell userInteractionEnabled   NO    This approach will not call didSelectRowAtIndexPath  method

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I am using this  which works for me   cell  selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyle None

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Very simple stuff  Before returning the tableview Cell use the style property of the table view cell   Just write this line of code before returning table view cell cell selectionStyle    none

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At least as of iOS 6  you can override methods in your custom cell to prevent the blue highlight   No other interaction is disabled or affected   All three must be overridden   -  void  setHighlighted  BOOL highlighted      -  void  setHighlighted  BOOL highlighted animated  BOOL animated      -  void  setSelected  BOOL selected animated  BOOL animated

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All you have to do is set the selection style on the UITableViewCell instance using either   Objective-C   cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    or   cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone     Swift 2   cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyle None   Swift 3 and 4 x   cell selectionStyle    none   Further  make sure you either don t implement -tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath  in your table view delegate or explicitly exclude the cells you want to have no action if you do implement it   More info here and here

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If you want selection to only flash  not remain in the selected state  you can call  in  didSelectRowAtIndexPath   the following   tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath indexPath animated YES     so it will flash the selected state and revert

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I ve been battling with this quite profusely too  having a control in my UITableViewCell prohibited the use of userInteractionEnabled property  I have a 3 cell static table for settings  2 with dates  1 with an on off switch  After playing about in Storyboard IB i ve managed to make the bottom one non-selectable  but when you tap it the selection from one of the top rows disappears  Here is a WIP image of my settings UITableView     If you tap the 3rd row nothing at all happens  the selection will stay on the second row  The functionality is practically a copy of Apple s Calendar app s add event time selection screen   The code is surprisingly compatible  all the way down to IOS2      -  NSIndexPath   tableView   UITableView   tableView willSelectRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath       if  indexPath row    2            return nil            return indexPath      This works in conjunction with setting the selection style to none  so the cell doesn t flicker on touch down events

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Directly disable highlighting of TableViewCell into storyboard

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You can use        cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone

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You just have to put this code into cellForRowAtIndexPath  To disable the cell s selection property  While tapping the cell    cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyle None

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The best solution would be Making The selection Style None    cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone     However  Here we are considering the fact that there are no custom images used for selected state

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At least as of iOS 6  you can override methods in your custom cell to prevent the blue highlight   No other interaction is disabled or affected   All three must be overridden   -  void  setHighlighted  BOOL highlighted      -  void  setHighlighted  BOOL highlighted animated  BOOL animated      -  void  setSelected  BOOL selected animated  BOOL animated

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Swift Solution w  Custom Cell   import Foundation  class CustomTableViewCell  UITableViewCell     required init coder aDecoder  NSCoder          fatalError  init coder   has not been implemented          override init style  UITableViewCellStyle  reuseIdentifier  String           super init style  style  reuseIdentifier  reuseIdentifier      self selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyle None

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In case anyone needs answer for Swift   cell selectionStyle    None

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FIXED SOLUTION FOR SWIFT 3   cell selectionStyle    none

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To disable the highlighting of the UItableviewcell  cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    And should not allow the user to interact with the cell    cell userInteractionEnabled   NO

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try this  cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    and   cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone     and you can also set selection style using interfacebuilder

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Swift Solution w  Custom Cell   import Foundation  class CustomTableViewCell  UITableViewCell     required init coder aDecoder  NSCoder          fatalError  init coder   has not been implemented          override init style  UITableViewCellStyle  reuseIdentifier  String           super init style  style  reuseIdentifier  reuseIdentifier      self selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyle None

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Objective-C    Below snippet disable highlighting but it also disable the call to didSelectRowAtIndexPath  So if you are not implementing didSelectRowAtIndexPath then use below method  This should be added when you are creating the table  This will work on buttons and UITextField inside the cell though   self tableView allowsSelection   NO   Below snippet disable highlighting and it doesn t disable the call to didSelectRowAtIndexPath  Set the selection style of cell to None in cellForRowAtIndexPath   cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone   Below snippet disable everything on the cell  This will disable the interaction to buttons  textfields   self tableView userInteractionEnabled   false     Swift   Below are the Swift equivalent of above Objective-C solutions    Replacement of First Solution  self tableView allowsSelection   false  Replacement of Second Solution  cell  selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyle None  Replacement of Third Solution  self tableView userInteractionEnabled   false

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If you want selection to only flash  not remain in the selected state  you can call  in  didSelectRowAtIndexPath   the following   tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath indexPath animated YES     so it will flash the selected state and revert

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You can also do it from the storyboard  Click the table view cell and in the attributes inspector under Table View Cell  change the drop down next to Selection to None

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1- All you have to do is set the selection style on the UITableViewCell instance using either    Objective-C   cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    or   cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone       Swift 2   cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyle None      Swift 3   cell selectionStyle    none    2 - Don t implement -tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath  in your table view delegate or explicitly exclude the cells you want to have no action if you do implement it   3 - Further You can also do it from the storyboard  Click the table view cell and in the attributes inspector under Table View Cell  change the drop down next to Selection to None    4 - You can disable table cell highlight using below code in  iOS  Xcode 9   Swift 4 0  func tableView   tableView  UITableView  cellForRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  UITableViewCell             let cell   tableView dequeueReusableCell withIdentifier   OpenTbCell   as  OpenTbCell         cell selectionStyle    none         return cell

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You Can also set the background color to Clear to achieve the same effect as UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone  in case you don t want to  can t use UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    You would use code like the following   UIView  backgroundColorView     UIView alloc  init   backgroundColorView backgroundColor    UIColor clearColor   backgroundColorView layer masksToBounds   YES   cell setSelectedBackgroundView  backgroundColorView     This may degrade your performance as your adding an extra colored view to each cell

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In case anyone needs answer for Swift   cell selectionStyle    None

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Swift 3 4 and 5 Better practice  write code in UITableViewCell For example  you have UITableViewCell with the name MyCell  In awakeFromNib just write self selectionStyle    none Full example  class MyCell  UITableViewCell            override func awakeFromNib             super awakeFromNib           self selectionStyle    none

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As of iOS 6 0  UITableViewDelegate has tableView shouldHighlightRowAtIndexPath    Read about it in the iOS Documentation    This method lets you mark specific rows as unhighlightable  and implicitly  unselectable  without having to change a cell s selection style  messing with the cell s event handling with userInteractionEnabled   NO  or any other techniques documented here

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I am using this  which works for me   cell  selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyle None

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While this is the best and easiest solution to prevent a row from showing the highlight during selection  cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    I d like to also suggest that it s occasionally useful to briefly show that the row has been selected and then turning it off  This alerts the users with a confirmation of what they intended to select   -  void tableView  UITableView   tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath         tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath indexPath animated NO

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Objective-C    Below snippet disable highlighting but it also disable the call to didSelectRowAtIndexPath  So if you are not implementing didSelectRowAtIndexPath then use below method  This should be added when you are creating the table  This will work on buttons and UITextField inside the cell though   self tableView allowsSelection   NO   Below snippet disable highlighting and it doesn t disable the call to didSelectRowAtIndexPath  Set the selection style of cell to None in cellForRowAtIndexPath   cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone   Below snippet disable everything on the cell  This will disable the interaction to buttons  textfields   self tableView userInteractionEnabled   false     Swift   Below are the Swift equivalent of above Objective-C solutions    Replacement of First Solution  self tableView allowsSelection   false  Replacement of Second Solution  cell  selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyle None  Replacement of Third Solution  self tableView userInteractionEnabled   false

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Disable selection for all UITableViewCells in the UITableView tableView allowsSelection   false  Disable selection for specific UITableViewCells cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCell SelectionStyle none

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You can use selectionStyle property of UITableViewCell   cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    Or        cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone     Also  do not implement below delegate  -  void tableView  UITableView   tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath           If you have created Xib Storyboard file then you can change setUserInteractionEnabled  property of tableview to No by unchecking it  This will make your tableview to Read-Only

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To sum up what I believe are the correct answers based on my own experience in implementing this   If you want to disable selection for just some of the cells  use   cell userInteractionEnabled   NO    As well as preventing selection  this also stops tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath  being called for the cells that have it set   Credit goes to Tony Million for this answer  thanks    If you have buttons in your cells that need to be clicked  you need to instead    cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone     and you also need to ignore any clicks on the cell in -  void tableView  UITableView   tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath   If you want to disable selection for the whole table  use   tableView allowsSelection   NO     Credit to Paulo De Barros  thanks

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Directly disable highlighting of TableViewCell into storyboard

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You can use     cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    in the cell for row at index path method of your UITableView   Also you can use      tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath indexPath animated NO     in the tableview didselectrowatindexpath method

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You can use this  cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone

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Try to type    cell selected   NO    It will deselect your row when needed    In Swift3      override func tableView   tableView  UITableView  didSelectRowAt indexPath  IndexPath        let r   indexPath row     print  clicked      r        tableView cellForRow at  indexPath   setSelected false  animated  true

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You can use selectionStyle property of UITableViewCell   cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    Or        cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone     Also  do not implement below delegate  -  void tableView  UITableView   tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath           If you have created Xib Storyboard file then you can change setUserInteractionEnabled  property of tableview to No by unchecking it  This will make your tableview to Read-Only

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cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone

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You Can also set the background color to Clear to achieve the same effect as UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone  in case you don t want to  can t use UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    You would use code like the following   UIView  backgroundColorView     UIView alloc  init   backgroundColorView backgroundColor    UIColor clearColor   backgroundColorView layer masksToBounds   YES   cell setSelectedBackgroundView  backgroundColorView     This may degrade your performance as your adding an extra colored view to each cell

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We can write code like   cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    but when we have custom cell xib above line give warning at that time for  custom cell xib  we need to set selection style None from the interface builder

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The best solution would be Making The selection Style None    cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone     However  Here we are considering the fact that there are no custom images used for selected state

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You can disable table cell highight  using below code in  iOS  Xcode 9   Swift 4 0   func tableView   tableView  UITableView  cellForRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  UITableViewCell             let cell   tableView dequeueReusableCell withIdentifier   OpenTbCell   as  OpenTbCell         cell selectionStyle    none         return cell

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1- All you have to do is set the selection style on the UITableViewCell instance using either    Objective-C   cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    or   cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone       Swift 2   cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyle None      Swift 3   cell selectionStyle    none    2 - Don t implement -tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath  in your table view delegate or explicitly exclude the cells you want to have no action if you do implement it   3 - Further You can also do it from the storyboard  Click the table view cell and in the attributes inspector under Table View Cell  change the drop down next to Selection to None    4 - You can disable table cell highlight using below code in  iOS  Xcode 9   Swift 4 0  func tableView   tableView  UITableView  cellForRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  UITableViewCell             let cell   tableView dequeueReusableCell withIdentifier   OpenTbCell   as  OpenTbCell         cell selectionStyle    none         return cell

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You can disable table cell highight  using below code in  iOS  Xcode 9   Swift 4 0   func tableView   tableView  UITableView  cellForRowAt indexPath  IndexPath  - gt  UITableViewCell             let cell   tableView dequeueReusableCell withIdentifier   OpenTbCell   as  OpenTbCell         cell selectionStyle    none         return cell

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Because I ve read this post recently and it has helped me  I wanted to post another answer to consolidate all of the answers  for posterity       So  there are actually 5 different answers depending on your desired logic and or result   1 To disable the blue highlighting without changing any other interaction of the cell    cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone     I use this when I have a UIButton - or some other control s  - hosted in a UITableViewCell and I want the user to be able to interact with the controls but not the cell itself   NOTE  As Tony Million noted above  this does NOT prevent tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath   I get around this by simple  if  statements  most often testing for the section and avoiding action for a particular section    Another way I thought of to test for the tapping of a cell like this is   -  void tableView  UITableView   tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath          A case was selected  so push into the CaseDetailViewController     UITableViewCell  cell    tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath       if  cell selectionStyle    UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone               Handle tap code here            2 To do this for an entire table  you can apply the above solution to each cell in the table  but you can also do this    tableView setAllowsSelection NO     In my testing  this still allows controls inside the UITableViewCell to be interactive   3 To make a cell  read-only   you can simply do this    cell setUserInteractionEnabled NO      4 To make an entire table  read-only    tableView setUserInteractionEnabled NO      5 To determine on-the-fly whether to highlight a cell  which according to this answer implicitly includes selection   you can implement the following UITableViewDelegate protocol method   -  BOOL tableView  UITableView   tableView     shouldHighlightRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath

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FIXED SOLUTION FOR SWIFT 3   cell selectionStyle    none

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Very simple stuff  Before returning the tableview Cell use the style property of the table view cell   Just write this line of code before returning table view cell cell selectionStyle    none

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Try to type    cell selected   NO    It will deselect your row when needed    In Swift3      override func tableView   tableView  UITableView  didSelectRowAt indexPath  IndexPath        let r   indexPath row     print  clicked      r        tableView cellForRow at  indexPath   setSelected false  animated  true

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In your UITableViewCell s XIB in Attribute Inspector set value of Selection to None

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You can use     cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    in the cell for row at index path method of your UITableView   Also you can use      tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath indexPath animated NO     in the tableview didselectrowatindexpath method

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Swift 3 4 and 5 Better practice  write code in UITableViewCell For example  you have UITableViewCell with the name MyCell  In awakeFromNib just write self selectionStyle    none Full example  class MyCell  UITableViewCell            override func awakeFromNib             super awakeFromNib           self selectionStyle    none

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This is what I use  in cellForRowAtIndexPath write this code    cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone

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For me  the following worked fine   tableView allowsSelection   false   This means didSelectRowAt  simply won t work  That is to say  touching a row of the table  as such  will do absolutely nothing   And hence  obviously  there will never be a selected-animation     Note that if  on the cells  you have UIButton or any other controls  of course those controls will still work  Any controls you happen to have on the table cell  are totally unrelated to UITableView s ability to allow you to  select a row  using didSelectRowAt     Another point to note is that  This doesn t work when the UITableView is in editing mode  To restrict cell selection in editing mode use the code as below   tableView allowsSelectionDuringEditing   false

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try this  cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    and   cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone     and you can also set selection style using interfacebuilder

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From UITableViewDataSource Protocol  inside method cellForRowAt add  let cell   tableView dequeueReusableCell withIdentifier   quot YOUR CELL IDENTIFIER quot   for  indexPath                  cell selectionStyle    none return cell  OR You can goto Storyboard  gt  Select Cell  gt  Identity Inspector  gt  Selection and select none from dropdown

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Scenario - 1  If you don t want selection for some specific cells on the tableview  you can set selection style in cellForRow function for those cells   Objective-C  cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    Swift 4 2  cell selectionStyle    none   Scenario - 2  For disabling selection on the whole table view    Objective-C  self tableView allowsSelection   false    Swift 4 2  self tableView allowsSelection   false

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You can use this  cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone

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All you have to do is set the selection style on the UITableViewCell instance using either   Objective-C   cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    or   cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone     Swift 2   cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyle None   Swift 3 and 4 x   cell selectionStyle    none   Further  make sure you either don t implement -tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath  in your table view delegate or explicitly exclude the cells you want to have no action if you do implement it   More info here and here

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Because I ve read this post recently and it has helped me  I wanted to post another answer to consolidate all of the answers  for posterity       So  there are actually 5 different answers depending on your desired logic and or result   1 To disable the blue highlighting without changing any other interaction of the cell    cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone     I use this when I have a UIButton - or some other control s  - hosted in a UITableViewCell and I want the user to be able to interact with the controls but not the cell itself   NOTE  As Tony Million noted above  this does NOT prevent tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath   I get around this by simple  if  statements  most often testing for the section and avoiding action for a particular section    Another way I thought of to test for the tapping of a cell like this is   -  void tableView  UITableView   tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath          A case was selected  so push into the CaseDetailViewController     UITableViewCell  cell    tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath       if  cell selectionStyle    UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone               Handle tap code here            2 To do this for an entire table  you can apply the above solution to each cell in the table  but you can also do this    tableView setAllowsSelection NO     In my testing  this still allows controls inside the UITableViewCell to be interactive   3 To make a cell  read-only   you can simply do this    cell setUserInteractionEnabled NO      4 To make an entire table  read-only    tableView setUserInteractionEnabled NO      5 To determine on-the-fly whether to highlight a cell  which according to this answer implicitly includes selection   you can implement the following UITableViewDelegate protocol method   -  BOOL tableView  UITableView   tableView     shouldHighlightRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath

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For me  the following worked fine   tableView allowsSelection   false   This means didSelectRowAt  simply won t work  That is to say  touching a row of the table  as such  will do absolutely nothing   And hence  obviously  there will never be a selected-animation     Note that if  on the cells  you have UIButton or any other controls  of course those controls will still work  Any controls you happen to have on the table cell  are totally unrelated to UITableView s ability to allow you to  select a row  using didSelectRowAt     Another point to note is that  This doesn t work when the UITableView is in editing mode  To restrict cell selection in editing mode use the code as below   tableView allowsSelectionDuringEditing   false

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All you have to do is set the selection style on the UITableViewCell instance using either   Objective-C   cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    or   cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone     Swift 2   cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyle None   Swift 3 and 4 x   cell selectionStyle    none   Further  make sure you either don t implement -tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath  in your table view delegate or explicitly exclude the cells you want to have no action if you do implement it   More info here and here

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We can write code like   cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    but when we have custom cell xib above line give warning at that time for  custom cell xib  we need to set selection style None from the interface builder

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This is what I use  in cellForRowAtIndexPath write this code    cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone

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To sum up what I believe are the correct answers based on my own experience in implementing this   If you want to disable selection for just some of the cells  use   cell userInteractionEnabled   NO    As well as preventing selection  this also stops tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath  being called for the cells that have it set   Credit goes to Tony Million for this answer  thanks    If you have buttons in your cells that need to be clicked  you need to instead    cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone     and you also need to ignore any clicks on the cell in -  void tableView  UITableView   tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath   If you want to disable selection for the whole table  use   tableView allowsSelection   NO     Credit to Paulo De Barros  thanks

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Scenario - 1  If you don t want selection for some specific cells on the tableview  you can set selection style in cellForRow function for those cells   Objective-C  cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    Swift 4 2  cell selectionStyle    none   Scenario - 2  For disabling selection on the whole table view    Objective-C  self tableView allowsSelection   false    Swift 4 2  self tableView allowsSelection   false

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You can also do it from the storyboard  Click the table view cell and in the attributes inspector under Table View Cell  change the drop down next to Selection to None

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While this is the best and easiest solution to prevent a row from showing the highlight during selection  cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    I d like to also suggest that it s occasionally useful to briefly show that the row has been selected and then turning it off  This alerts the users with a confirmation of what they intended to select   -  void tableView  UITableView   tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath  NSIndexPath   indexPath         tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath indexPath animated NO

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To disable the highlighting of the UItableviewcell  cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone    And should not allow the user to interact with the cell    cell userInteractionEnabled   NO

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You can use        cell setSelectionStyle UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone

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The better approach will be   cell userInteractionEnabled   NO    This approach will not call didSelectRowAtIndexPath  method

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UITableViewCell  cell    self tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath    cell setSelected NO animated NO    cell setHighlighted NO animated NO     Happy coding

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In your UITableViewCell s XIB in Attribute Inspector set value of Selection to None

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You can also disable selection of row from interface builder itself by choosing NoSelection from the selection option of UITableView Properties  in inspector pane as shown in the below image

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You just have to put this code into cellForRowAtIndexPath  To disable the cell s selection property  While tapping the cell    cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCellSelectionStyle None

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Disable selection for all UITableViewCells in the UITableView tableView allowsSelection   false  Disable selection for specific UITableViewCells cell selectionStyle   UITableViewCell SelectionStyle none

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