Remove the cell highlight color of UITableView

In Swift:

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCell.SelectionStyle.none

or simply:

cell.selectionStyle = .none

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In the Storyboard or XIB Attributes Inspector, set Selection to None.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/u41qR.png

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Swift 3.0

cell.selectionStyle = .none

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// Swift 2.0

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.None

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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

https://i.stack.imgur.com/M4L9R.png

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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

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Do it in the cell:

class YourCell:  UITableViewCell {
    
    override func didMoveToSuperview() {
        selectionStyle = .none
    }

    ...
}

It's that easy.

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Try this for swift

cell?.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyle.None

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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.

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Swift 5.4 , just put the selectionStyle = .none

Example:

class TableViewCell: UITableViewCell {

 override func awakeFromNib() {
    super.awakeFromNib()
    
    selectionStyle = .none 

}

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Swift 5:

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
    let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "cell")
    cell.selectionStyle = .none
    
    return cell
}

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