UITableViewCell: How to prevent blue selection background w/o borking isSelected property?
You must also override setHighlighted: to prevent the blue gradient from ever showing. If you just override setHighlighted: then you end up with a momentary selection effect. so you’ll have these two methods: – (void)setHighlighted: (BOOL)highlighted animated: (BOOL)animated { // don’t highlight } – (void)setSelected: (BOOL)selected animated: (BOOL)animated { // don’t select //[super setSelected:selected animated:animated]; …