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I declared the future tableViewHeader with this UIView * ivHeaderContainer = [[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,.01,.01)]; Instead of UIView * ivHeaderContainer = [[UIView alloc]init]; Problem is magically solved. It follows solutions here: Why is there extra padding at the top of my UITableView with style UITableViewStyleGrouped in iOS7 Next question. Why?