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I have a viewController with a UITableView, the rows of which I allow to edit (delete) with a swipe - much like in the Mail app. I do it with, among other, this method: - (BOOL)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView canEditRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { return YES; } However, if I have a delete button revealed, and at the same time I use back navigation of my UINavigationController, i.e. when I popViewControllerAnimated:, the app crashes with the following message: [ViewController tableView:canEditRowAtIndexPath:]: message sent to deallocated instance 0xaae64d0 How can I resolve this problem?

 

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In your view controller's dealloc method, set the table view's editing property to NO.

answered  Oct 8 '13 at 8:41 3,96811023

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This works but it only started happening in iOS7. Any idea why? –   

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Because Apple's written some buggy code. –   

Hope we are all submitted Bug Reports :) –   

At first, I thought this is a random crash because of system bugs because crashlytics tells me only few people(out of thousands) having this issue. Now I know why and get my app fixed! –   

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Nice find. I see Apple still hasn't fixed this. –   

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I had the same problem, but I was using ARC and I didn't want to be mucking about in the dealloc method. Doing it in viewWillDisappear was sufficient to stop the crash.

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated { [super viewWillDisappear:animated]; [table setEditing:NO]; }

answered  Oct 8 '13 at 16:14 49026

Is it wrong to have a dealloc method under ARC as long as you don't call [super dealloc]? –   

It's not wrong. The accepted answer won't break anything and will compile normally. You literally won't be allowed to call [super dealloc] or release as ARC is supposed to call them for you. My suggestion was mostly to reduce confusion since I didn't want an unusual dealloc method when none of my other classes have one. It also feels weird to be setting a property on an object moments before it will likely be released. –   

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This method will sometimes cause weird behaviour if you present other vcs etc so I would use the dealloc method. –   

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viewDidDisappear: also works, which I prefer in this case as the user doesn't see the tableview transitioning out of the editing state. –   

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Thank you.... I also had this issue on iOS7 only.... –