After wasting multiple hours with interface builder, I’m thinking that there might be a bug there. So I started to look for a programatic answer. Apparently had I started here I could have saved a ton of time. By adding to the method:
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
I was able to solve the transparency issue on iPad by adding this one line:
cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor]; // Adding this fixes the issue for iPad
Hope this helps everyone else with the white background seen for ipad with tables and iOS7!