selection-color

No need for custom cells. If you only want to change the selected color of the cell, you can do this: Objective-C: UIView *bgColorView = [[UIView alloc] init]; bgColorView.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor]; [cell setSelectedBackgroundView:bgColorView]; Swift: let bgColorView = UIView() bgColorView.backgroundColor = UIColor.red cell.selectedBackgroundView = bgColorView