This was driving me crazy. I figured out that you need to override setHighlighted:animated:
and setSelected:animated:
- (void)setHighlighted:(BOOL)highlighted animated:(BOOL)animated {
[super setHighlighted:highlighted animated:animated];
self.yourButton.highlighted = NO;
}
- (void)setSelected:(BOOL)selected animated:(BOOL)animated {
[super setSelected:selected animated:animated];
self.yourButton.selected = NO;
// If you don't set highlighted to NO in this method,
// for some reason it'll be highlighed while the
// table cell selection animates out
self.yourButton.highlighted = NO;
}