iphone - didSelectRowAtIndexPath: only being called after long press on custom cell

same problem happened with me because I have added a tap gesture recogniser over it. If you have used any gesture recognizer try removing it and check if it causing the problem.

EDIT: Solution as commented by the Ali: If you have used tap gesture you can use [tap setCancelsTouchesInView:NO];

I was faced with a similar issue:

For me, the problem was because my UITableView was added to an UIScrollView and more specifically to its contentView. It appears that inside the contentView, I had to stay press 2-3 sec to fire the didSelectRowAtIndexPath method.

I moved my TableView to self.view instead of contentView and it solved the problem!

Maybe you will call the method

[tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:NO];

before Push ViewController or Other Operation. Like

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

    // 1. manual call this method to deSelect Other Cell
    [tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:NO];

    // 2. than do other operation
    PushViewController Or Some Animation ....
}

that`s solve my problem .