Hide the circle on UITableView with multiple selection - objective-c

Question

I have a UITableView that hast multiple selection enabled.
Some of my cells are not to be selected. For those I implement:
in the tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath:
I set cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;
and in tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath:
I call [self.tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:NO];.
This works fine. My only caveat is that the little circle left of the cell still appears. It does not get checked when a user taps the cell, but I would like for it not to be shown, when a cell is "unselectable".
How can I hide those circles for certain cells?
Thanks

Answer 1

You have to implement the tableView:canEditRowAtIndexPath: method in your table view datasource. It will let you prevent the cells you want to be editable and thus the circles not to be shown.
Beware that setting cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone; does NOT prevent the cell to be selected. It just removes any visual clue on a selected cell.

Answer 2

Try this...
- (UITableViewCell*)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
if([[tableView indexPathsForSelectedRows] containsObject:indexPath]) {
cell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryCheckmark;
}
else {
cell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryNone;
}
}
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didDeselectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
UITableViewCell* cell = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
cell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryNone;
}
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
UITableViewCell* cell = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
cell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryCheckmark;
}

Answer 3

Subclassing UITableViewCell and adding following method works for me:
override func setEditing(_ editing: Bool, animated: Bool) {
super.setEditing(false, animated: true);
}