How to scroll to the bottom of a UITableView on the iPhone before the view appears

Question

I believe that calling

 tableView.setContentOffset(CGPoint(x: 0, y: CGFloat.greatestFiniteMagnitude), animated: false)

will do what you want.

I think the easiest way is this:

if (self.messages.count > 0)
{
    [self.tableView 
        scrollToRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:self.messages.count-1 
        inSection:0] 
        atScrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionBottom animated:YES];
}

Swift 3 Version:

if messages.count > 0 {
    userDefinedOptionsTableView.scrollToRow(at: IndexPath(item:messages.count-1, section: 0), at: .bottom, animated: true)
}

From Jacob's answer, this is the code:

- (void) viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewDidAppear:animated];

    if (self.messagesTableView.contentSize.height > self.messagesTableView.frame.size.height) 
    {
        CGPoint offset = CGPointMake(0, self.messagesTableView.contentSize.height - self.messagesTableView.frame.size.height);
        [self.messagesTableView setContentOffset:offset animated:YES];
    }
}

If you need to scroll to the EXACT end of the content, you can do it like this:

- (void)scrollToBottom
{
    CGFloat yOffset = 0;

    if (self.tableView.contentSize.height > self.tableView.bounds.size.height) {
        yOffset = self.tableView.contentSize.height - self.tableView.bounds.size.height;
    }

    [self.tableView setContentOffset:CGPointMake(0, yOffset) animated:NO];
}

I'm using autolayout and none of the answers worked for me. Here is my solution that finally worked:

@property (nonatomic, assign) BOOL shouldScrollToLastRow;


- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];

    _shouldScrollToLastRow = YES;
}


- (void)viewDidLayoutSubviews {
    [super viewDidLayoutSubviews];

    // Scroll table view to the last row
    if (_shouldScrollToLastRow)
    {
        _shouldScrollToLastRow = NO;
        [self.tableView setContentOffset:CGPointMake(0, CGFLOAT_MAX)];
    }
}

Here's an extension that I implemented in Swift 2.0. These functions should be called after the tableview has been loaded:

import UIKit

extension UITableView {
    func setOffsetToBottom(animated: Bool) {
        self.setContentOffset(CGPointMake(0, self.contentSize.height - self.frame.size.height), animated: true)
    }

    func scrollToLastRow(animated: Bool) {
        if self.numberOfRowsInSection(0) > 0 {
            self.scrollToRowAtIndexPath(NSIndexPath(forRow: self.numberOfRowsInSection(0) - 1, inSection: 0), atScrollPosition: .Bottom, animated: animated)
        }
    }
}

The accepted solution by @JacobRelkin didn't work for me in iOS 7.0 using Auto Layout.

I have a custom subclass of UIViewController and added an instance variable _tableView as a subview of its view. I positioned _tableView using Auto Layout. I tried calling this method at the end of viewDidLoad and even in viewWillAppear:. Neither worked.

So, I added the following method to my custom subclass of UIViewController.

- (void)tableViewScrollToBottomAnimated:(BOOL)animated {
    NSInteger numberOfRows = [_tableView numberOfRowsInSection:0];
    if (numberOfRows) {
        [_tableView scrollToRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:numberOfRows-1 inSection:0] atScrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionBottom animated:animated];
    }
}

Calling [self tableViewScrollToBottomAnimated:NO] at the end of viewDidLoad works. Unfortunately, it also causes tableView:heightForRowAtIndexPath: to get called three times for every cell.