After a swipe left on a UITableViewCell in a UITableView, how do I programmatically close the swipe?

Question

I enable swipe left on a row to show a action. Upon tapping on the action, I want the swiped open table cell to close. How do I go about doing that?

I've tried to cell.setEditing(false, animated:true) but setting editing doesn't close the swipe.

Answer 1

Note: I don't have enough reputation to comment on your question, therefore I would have to make some assumptions regarding your implementation.

If you are trying to close the cell in tableView:commitEditingStyle:forRowAtIndexPath: you can try this:

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView commitEditingStyle:(UITableViewCellEditingStyle)editingStyle forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    if (editingStyle == UITableViewCellEditingStyleDelete)
    {
        // remove delete button only after short delay
        [self performSelector:@selector(hideDeleteButton:) withObject:nil afterDelay:0.1];
    }
}

- (void)hideDeleteButton:(id)obj
{
    [self.tableView setEditing:NO animated:YES];
}

The reason for using performSelector:withObject:afterDelay: is the note in the Table View Programming Guide for iOS

Note: The data source should not call setEditing:animated: from within its implementation of tableView:commitEditingStyle:forRowAtIndexPath:. If for some reason it must, it should invoke it after a delay by using the performSelector:withObject:afterDelay: method.

All this was heavily inspired by the following answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22063692/2433921