UITableViewCell setSelected:animated having no effect when animated

Question

I've got a view controller on iPad with three UITableViews on it. They all have dataSource and delegate set to the VC. In tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath: in the VC, I do this:

UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
NSLog(@"Cell: %@", cell);
[cell setSelected:NO animated:YES];

It logs the correct cell (non-nil), but the cell always stays selected until another cell in the same table is selected. If I pass NO for animated , it works fine. What's going on? Why won't the cell animate its deselection?

Answer 1

You can use [tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:YES]; to get the functionality you are looking for.