Is there a way to hide the scroll indicators in a UIScrollView?

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I've got a use case where those indicators disturb the user interaction. Can I subclass and override a method or do something similar to remove the scroll indicators from the scroll view?

score 276 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 15 '18 at 06:58

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Set the showsHorizontalScrollIndicator and showsVerticalScrollIndicator properties of the UIScrollView to NO.

[tableView setShowsHorizontalScrollIndicator:NO];
[tableView setShowsVerticalScrollIndicator:NO];

Documentation - UIScrollView

edited Feb 15 '18 at 06:58

Pang

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answered May 04 '09 at 21:20

retainCount

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As learnt from Docs,you can even use it for scrollview directly! [scrollview setShowsHorizontalScrollIndicator:NO]; Thanks to @retainCount – Rajal Jan 22 '15 at 07:17
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As of iOS 11, this should be called in viewWillAppear, it doesn't work if called in viewDidLoad – melvinto Mar 08 '18 at 17:38

Bhavesh Nayi · Answer 2 · 2018-05-28T13:38:12.260

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//For UITableView - Objective-C

tbl.showsHorizontalScrollIndicator = NO;
tbl.showsVerticalScrollIndicator = NO;

//For UITableView - SWIFT 3.0

tbl.showsHorizontalScrollIndicator = false
tbl.showsVerticalScrollIndicator = false

//For UIScrollView - Objective-C

scrl.showsHorizontalScrollIndicator = NO;
scrl.showsVerticalScrollIndicator = NO;

//For UIScrollView - SWIFT

scrl.showsHorizontalScrollIndicator = false
scrl.showsVerticalScrollIndicator = false

Change from XIB or storyboard

edited May 28 '18 at 13:38

answered Apr 05 '13 at 07:18

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tableView also has checkboxes for this - I'm working with xCode 11 – Andy Weinstein Jul 08 '20 at 14:10

score 18 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 01 '14 at 06:15

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For those looking to do this in Swift.

self.tableView.showsHorizontalScrollIndicator = false
self.tableView.showsVerticalScrollIndicator = false

answered Sep 01 '14 at 06:15

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score 10 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 02 '15 at 16:45

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For UIScrollView in Swift

scrollView?.showsHorizontalScrollIndicator = false
scrollView?.showsVerticalScrollIndicator = false

answered Jun 02 '15 at 16:45

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score 5 · Answer 5 · edited May 01 '19 at 07:50

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Swift 3.0 extension for UIScrollView and UITableView:

import Foundation

extension UIScrollView {
    func hideIndicators() {
        showsHorizontalScrollIndicator = false
        showsVerticalScrollIndicator = false
    }
}

edited May 01 '19 at 07:50

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answered Apr 24 '17 at 07:23

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Why the Hell are you using an extension ? You're complicating things with useless lines of code for people who are trying to learn, when a simple view.showsHorizontalScrollIndicator = false would work… – petaire Jun 17 '17 at 08:32
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@petaire -- You need to calm down lol. I actually really like that extension. – quemeful Nov 21 '17 at 18:11
Extensions are too overkill for this, please use these settings directly. – Pedro Paulo Amorim Dec 18 '19 at 11:11

score 4 · Answer 6 · edited May 10 '15 at 11:29

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These are your UITableView scrolling properties:

[YourTableView setShowsHorizontalScrollIndicator:NO];
[YourTableView setShowsVerticalScrollIndicator:NO];

These are your UIScrollView scrolling properties:

[YourScroll setShowsHorizontalScrollIndicator:NO];
[YourScroll setShowsVerticalScrollIndicator:NO];

edited May 10 '15 at 11:29

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answered Mar 20 '14 at 06:04

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 25 '20 at 13:26

No answers have worked for me because the focus ring of indicators is shown every time but I solve my problem via NSStoryboard.

NSCollectionView have a diagram;

Scroll View - Collection View then Clip View then Scroller (vertical) & Scroller (Horizontal)

Click any Scroller object then in Attributes Inspector set Focus Ring property to None. If you have not set it you can have a problem when users change the Appearance between Dark and Light.

Is there a way to hide the scroll indicators in a UIScrollView?

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