Can I force a UITableView to hide the separator between empty cells? [duplicate]

Question

For iOS 7.* and iOS 6.1

The easiest method is to set the tableFooterView property:

- (void)viewDidLoad 
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    // This will remove extra separators from tableview
    self.tableView.tableFooterView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
}

For previous versions

You could add this to your TableViewController (this will work for any number of sections):

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section {
     // This will create a "invisible" footer
     return 0.01f;
 }

and if it is not enough, add the following code too:

- (UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForFooterInSection:(NSInteger)section
{        
    return [UIView new];

    // If you are not using ARC:
    // return [[UIView new] autorelease];
}

For Swift:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    tableView.tableFooterView = UIView()  // it's just 1 line, awesome!
}

You can achieve what you want by defining a footer for the tableview. See this answer for more details:Eliminate Extra separators below UITableView

Using the link from Daniel, I made an extension to make it more usable:

//UITableViewController+Ext.m
- (void)hideEmptySeparators
{
    UIView *v = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
    v.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
    [self.tableView setTableFooterView:v];
    [v release];
}

After some testings, I found out that the size can be 0 and it works as well. So it doesn't add some kind of margin at the end of the table. So thanks wkw for this hack. I decided to post that here since I don't like redirect.

Swift Version

The easiest method is to set the tableFooterView property:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    // This will remove extra separators from tableview
    self.tableView.tableFooterView = UIView(frame: CGRectZero)
}

For Swift:

self.tableView.tableFooterView = UIView(frame: CGRectZero)

For newest Swift:

self.tableView.tableFooterView = UIView(frame: CGRect.zero)