Assertion failure in -[UITableView _endCellAnimationsWithContext:]

I don't see the reason for you to show us this part of code. Your error must be connected to this part in your code I assume

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath;- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section

Probably you are making a mistake in one of these data source methods. Currently it's impossible to say what exactly is wrong but I assume it could be something like: You are telling the table view in the numberOfRowsInSection you would like to have n rows reserved and setup and in the cellForRowAtIndexPath you then only handle n - 1 rows for example.

Sorry that this answer can't be as precise as it should be. If you show us your implementation of your data source it would be much easier to tell what's going on.

Like Sun Tzu said: it's best to win without fighting. In my case whenever I see this kind of error message (ie discrepancy between rows added deleted etc).. I don't even debug anything.. I simply avoid making that extra call where I reload the rows etc.. that's 99% of the cases where this error happens.

This is a common scenario where this bug happens: I have a UINavigationController and it has a UITableView, when I click on a row it pushes a new UITableView and so on. This error always happens to me when I pop the last UITableview and go back to the UITableView before it, at this point I make an unnecessary call to the loadIt function which basically inserts the rows and relaods the UITableView.

The reason this happens is because I erroneously place my loadIt function in viewDidAppear:animated rather than viewDidLoad. viewDidAppear:animated is called every time the UITableView is displayed, viewDidLoad is only called once.

When removing rows, remember that it also checks sections when updating, in:

- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)theTableView

If you want to remove a row that is the last item in a section you need to remove the whole section instead (otherwise it might get section count wrong and throw this exception).