iOS 8 Auto cell height – Can’t scroll to last row

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Update: Jun 24, 2015

Apple has addressed most of these bugs as of the iOS 9.0 SDK. All of the issues are fixed as of iOS 9 beta 2, including scrolling to the top & bottom of the table view without animation, and calling reloadData while scrolled in the middle of the table view.

Here are the remaining issues that have not been fixed yet:

  1. When using a large estimated row height, scrolling to the last row with animation causes the table view cells to disappear.
  2. When using a small estimated row height, scrolling to the last row with animation causes the table view to finish scrolling too early, leaving some cells below the visible area (and the last row still offscreen).

A new bug report (rdar://21539211) has been filed for these issues relating to scrolling with animation.

Original Answer

This is an Apple bug with the table view row height estimation, and it has existed since this functionality first was introduced in iOS 7. I have worked directly with Apple UIKit engineers and developer evangelists on this issue — they have acknowledged that it is a bug, but do not have any reliable workaround (short of disabling row height estimation), and did not seem particularly interested in fixing it.

Note that the bug manifests itself in other ways, such as disappearing table view cells when you call reloadData while scrolled partially or fully down (e.g. contentOffset.y is significantly greater than 0).

Clearly, with iOS 8 self sizing cells, row height estimation is critically important, so Apple really needs to address this ASAP.

I filed this issue back on Oct 21 2013 as Radar #15283329. Please do file duplicate bug reports so that Apple prioritizes a fix.

You can attach this simple sample project to demonstrate the issue. It is based directly on Apple’s own sample code.

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