Change default icon for moving cells in UITableView

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This is a really hacky solution, and may not work long term, but may give you a starting point. The re-order control is a UITableViewCellReorderControl, but that’s a private class, so you can’t access it directly. However, you could just look through the hierarchy of subviews and find its imageView.

You can do this by subclassing UITableViewCell and overriding its setEditing:animated: method as follows:

- (void) setEditing:(BOOL)editing animated:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super setEditing: editing animated: YES];

    if (editing) {

        for (UIView * view in self.subviews) {
            if ([NSStringFromClass([view class]) rangeOfString: @"Reorder"].location != NSNotFound) {
                for (UIView * subview in view.subviews) {
                    if ([subview isKindOfClass: [UIImageView class]]) {
                        ((UIImageView *)subview).image = [UIImage imageNamed: @"yourimage.png"];
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }   
}

Or in Swift

override func setEditing(_ editing: Bool, animated: Bool) {
    super.setEditing(editing, animated: animated)

    if editing {
        for view in subviews where view.description.contains("Reorder") {
            for case let subview as UIImageView in view.subviews {
                subview.image = UIImage(named: "yourimage.png")
            }
        }
    }
}

Be warned though… this may not be a long term solution, as Apple could change the view hierarchy at any time.

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