left circle in UITableViewCell editing mode appears in iOS8

Question

So I just installed Xcode 6GM and fiddled with my iOS7 app on simulator running iOS8.

I have a UITableView that's in editing mode and there's now a circle on the left side of the cell which doesn't appear when running on iOS7.

I glanced at the documentation for iOS8, but I don't see any new constants and I'm using UITableViewCellEditingStyleNone and UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone.

That circle disappears when tableView.editing = NO, also allowsMultipleSelectionDuringEditing = YES.

If anyone can tell me what's going on that'd be great :)

EDIT: compiling from XCode6GM onto my iPhone running iOS7.1 gives me the circle too. I suspect a bug with XCode6GM?

Here is a screenshot with the circles:

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Are you able to show a screen shot of the "Left Circle". For your information, there is a new property added to UIView for all the object inherit from it. It might be the "Left Circle" that you mentioned. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25762723/remove-separatorinset-on-ios-8-uitableview-for-xcode-6-iphone-simulator — Ricky, Sep 13 '14 at 00:34
@Ricky it doesn't seem to be.. this is like the undocumented UITableViewEditingStyle with index 3 that gives you a circle with a checkmark in it when selected, except the odd part is I can't even get it to "check". I spent an hour going thru the new docs and another hour fiddling around before I decided to post on SO. — JackyJohnson, Sep 13 '14 at 05:59
(In case this is found by others with a slightly different problem.) I was troubled by the overlapping circle too, but in my case I wanted to make use of it. Then I remembered that I had implemented the following: `- (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView shouldIndentWhileEditingRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { return NO; }` I changed the return to `YES` and all was well. — mts, Oct 11 '14 at 12:56

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 19 '14 at 23:40

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I just had this annoying issue while migrating my app to iOS8.

Here is the workaround I found ... add something like this in your UITableViewCell subclass:

- (void)setEditing:(BOOL)editing animated:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super setEditing:editing animated:animated];
    for( UIView* subview in self.subviews )
        if( [NSStringFromClass(subview.class) isEqualToString:@"UITableViewCellEditControl"] )
            subview.hidden = YES;
}

I hope this will be documented / fixed soon ...

answered Sep 19 '14 at 23:40

nick671

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UITableViewCellEditControl eh? wth... but well done! :) – JackyJohnson Sep 20 '14 at 18:32
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This is a nice workaround and it seems it's the only way to get rid of those gray circles when the table has allowsMultipleSelectionDuringEditing set to YES. Couple small things I added to that: first, doing it only for iOS 8 by wrapping with - if (NSFoundationVersionNumber > NSFoundationVersionNumber_iOS_7_1) { }. And second, adding a break to exit the loop when the 1st subview gets hidden. – Vitali Tchalov Oct 16 '14 at 19:38

MZD · Answer 2 · 2016-03-21T06:36:18.670

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I think I have a better solution, add this code to your custom uitableviewcell:

- (void)addSubview:(UIView *)view {
    [super addSubview:view];
    if( [NSStringFromClass(view.class) isEqualToString:@"UITableViewCellEditControl"] ) {
        view.hidden = YES
    }
}

edited Mar 21 '16 at 06:36

answered Oct 03 '14 at 06:28

MZD

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That might be risky, who knows what the system is using that subview for. I prefer the original answer that just makes the view hidden while leaving it intact in the hierarchy. – Vitali Tchalov Oct 16 '14 at 19:36
@VitaliTchalov Yes, maybe you can set its hidden attribute here instead of bypassing "addSubview" call. – MZD Jan 31 '15 at 13:40

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 10 '15 at 14:25

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Here's a Swift solution combining the two answers:

override func addSubview(view: UIView) {
    super.addSubview(view)
    if view.isKindOfClass(NSClassFromString("UITableViewCellEditControl")!) {
        view.hidden = true
    }
}

answered Sep 10 '15 at 14:25

Chris C

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 07 '17 at 18:16

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Here is the Swift3 version:

override func addSubview(_ view: UIView) {
    super.addSubview(view)
    if view.classAsString() == "UITableViewCellEditControl" {
        view.isHidden = true
    }
}

answered Mar 07 '17 at 18:16

FBronner

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Value of type UIView has no member classAsString – Jordan H May 02 '17 at 17:54

left circle in UITableViewCell editing mode appears in iOS8

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