Reload a table view's data without clearing its selection state

Question

I have a table view with selectable rows. When I reload the table view some new rows might be added (or removed) and some labels in the table view's cells might change. That's what I want to achieve by calling [tableView reloadData].

Unfortunately that method also clears the table view's whole state - including the selection. But I need to keep the selection.

So how can I reload all the data in a table view while still keeping the selected rows selected?

Answer 1

You can store the index path of the selected row with:

rowToSelect = [yourTableView indexPathForSelectedRow];

Before reload the data. And after reload use:

[yourTableView selectRowAtIndexPath:rowToSelect animated:YES scrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionNone];

Answer 2

JeroVallis solution works for single selection table views. Based on his idea this is how I made it work with multiple selection:

NSArray *selectedIndexPaths = [self.tableView indexPathsForSelectedRows];
[tableView reloadData];
for (int i = 0; i < [selectedIndexPaths count]; i++) {
    [tableView selectRowAtIndexPath:selectedIndexPaths[i] animated:NO scrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionNone];
}