UITableView bouncing back to the top of a section when calling reloadRowsAtIndexPaths

Question

When a user taps a button in one of my rows I am updating the underlying model for that row and then calling reloadRowsAtIndexPaths for the given row (i.e. single row reload).

- (IBAction)handleCompleteTouchEvent:(UIButton *)sender {
    NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.tableView indexPathForView:sender];
    id item = [self dataForIndexPath:indexPath];

    if ([item respondsToSelector:@selector(completed)]) {
        // toogle completed value
        BOOL completed = ![[item valueForKey:@"completed"] boolValue];
        [item setValue:[NSNumber numberWithBool:completed] forKey:@"completed"];

        [self.tableView beginUpdates];
        [self.tableView reloadRowsAtIndexPaths:@[indexPath] withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationNone];
        [self.tableView endUpdates];
    }
}

The problem is that the table view bounces back to the top of the section after making this call. How can I prevent this from occurring and keep the scroll position where it is?

Answer 1

Ah Ha! I found the problem and am going to answer my own question for the poor soul who runs into this issue in the future.

All of my cells have variable height so I was using the new iOS7 method in UITableViewDelegate thinking it might speed up render time (not that I really needed it):

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView estimatedHeightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath;

Anyway, implementing this method has the evil side effect of causing the table to bounce to the top of the section when calling:

[self.tableView reloadRowsAtIndexPaths:@[indexPath] withRowAnimation:UITableViewRowAnimationNone];

To solve the bounce problem I just removed the override of that estimatedHeightForRowAtIndexPath method and now everything works as it should. Happy at last.

Answer 2

This did the trick for me.

UIView.setAnimationsEnabled(false)
tableView.reloadRows(at: [...], with: .none)
UIView.setAnimationsEnabled(true)

Answer 3

Swift 4.2

This can work anywhere you want to remove animation. During reload of table , table section or any row

 UIView.performWithoutAnimation({
                cell.configureSelection(isSelected: true)
                tableView.reloadSections([1], with: .none)
                tableView.allowsSelection =  false

            })