Sorry I wasn't very clear. generally speaking this is a bad idea but it works great if you have a small table. 1) in my ViewDidLoad I create an array of cells.

Sorry I wasn't very clear. generally speaking this is a bad idea but it works great if you have a small table. 1) in my ViewDidLoad I create an array of cells. 2) Then in my cellForRowAtIndexPath, I return the particular cell in my array. - (UITableViewCell )tableView:(UITableView )tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { NSUInteger row = [indexPath row]; return [cellArray objectAtIndex:row]; }