Something is wrong with the iPhone 6 Plus tableView.separatorInset

Question

Something is up with our table view cell separators on the iPhone 6 Plus. I created a blank test project with a custom cell with only one label and a 15pt constraint to the leading edge.

iPhone 5S

Label and separator are 30 px (15pt) from the leading edge. All is good.

iPhone 5S

iPhone 6 Plus

Label is 48 px (15pt) from the leading edge and the separator is 60px (20pt) from the leading edge.

iPhone 6 Plus

If i log the tableView.separatorInset it's 15pt on the iPhone 5S and 20pt on the 6 Plus. Setting the inset to 15 on the 6 Plus manually doesn't work.

Please send help.

I'm having the same problem, even after the recent iOS 8.1.1 update. The weird thing is that this only happens on custom styled table view cells. — zgosalvez, Nov 28 '14 at 02:57

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 29 '14 at 06:02

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Override layoutMargins method in your custom cell class.

 - (UIEdgeInsets)layoutMargins
{
    return UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 15, 0, 0);
}

answered Oct 29 '14 at 06:02

Vidyalaxmi

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What's better way to do this without hard coding number? – Sam Feb 15 '15 at 05:02
A better way is to disable separator and add a custom view as separator. – Vidyalaxmi Jan 11 '16 at 06:46
For the proper way to do it, check out [this post](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27420888/uitableviewcell-with-autolayout-left-margin-different-on-iphone-and-ipad). The reason why that is the proper way is because it respects the larger left margin of a larger device like 6 Plus or iPad. Apple set the margin to be larger for a reason, so it looks better, and the apps should respect that. – Eric Jan 23 '16 at 19:49

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 17 '15 at 05:03

2

If you are using a Storyboard, select the Table View attributes inspector. Change the

Separator Inset

to

Custom

and leave the default left margin as 15.

answered Aug 17 '15 at 05:03

Daniel

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For IOS 9, this solution worked for me. I was using a custom cell that contained a label with a 15pt constraint to the leading edge. The 15pt constraint worked great with all iPhones except with the iPhone 6+ & iPad (the label wasn't aligned with the tableview's separator inset). This solution fixed the problem though. Thanks! – xNightxOwl Sep 06 '15 at 02:10
Works also on iOS 8. Most easy solution for me. – Tuslareb Feb 29 '16 at 11:32

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 12 '15 at 13:21

1

Not a perfect solution, but it worked for me.

@IBOutlet weak var leftViewLeadingConstraint: NSLayoutConstraint!

override func viewWillLayoutSubviews() {
    super.viewWillLayoutSubviews()
    switch UIScreen.mainScreen().scale {
    case 2:
        leftViewLeadingConstraint.constant = 7.0
    case 3:
        leftViewLeadingConstraint.constant = 11.0
    default:
        assertionFailure("Error: wrong scale value")
    }
}

answered Mar 12 '15 at 13:21

Konstantin Cherkasov

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I don't know why this answer didn't get votes. It worked perfectly for me! I adjusted the leading edge constraint in the layoutSubviews method in my UITableViewCell subclass if the scale is 3, and in the Storyboard, I specified the leading edge constraint to have a value of 12 (I think 11 is wrong) if the size class is Regular width x Any height. – Blip Mar 30 '15 at 22:59

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 07 '15 at 02:03

I fixed by this solution: http://qiita.com/mono0926/items/42f7a344b39e946abfe2

Get tableView.separatorInset.left value when viewDidLayoutSubviews called.

override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
    super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()
    notificationLabelLeft.constant = tableView.separatorInset.left
}

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 12 '17 at 02:01

0

Just make this option of the table to false and it will work the same on all devices, especially on iPad.

cellLayoutMarginsFollowReadableWidth = false

answered Sep 12 '17 at 02:01

invoodoo

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Something is wrong with the iPhone 6 Plus tableView.separatorInset

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