UITableView need long press to select a row

Question

Anyone has ever come into the problem that UITableView need long press to trigger the didSelectRowAtIndexPath method?

Answer 1

If you have used any gesture recognizer try to removing it and check if it causing the problem or not ?

Other wise

Not sure but The problem might be in the UITableView has delaysContentTouches turned ON. Turn this OFF so touches get through to the cells faster.

Answer 2

In my situation I had a UITapGestureRecognizer on my view for hiding my keyboard.

This solved the problem:

tap.cancelsTouchesInView = false

Answer 3

I had exactly the same trouble :

• I used the Tap Gesture recognizer to manage different action in my View Controller
• I wanted a classic tap (short click) to trigger the didSelectRowAtIndexPath method but just a long press working by default

My solution to select a cell in Table View by a short tap (press) :

• Select your Tap Gesture recognizer in your Story Board
• Go to the attributes inspector and deselect "Canceled in view"