---
title: isPrefetchingEnabled
framework: uikit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: uikit/uitableview/isprefetchingenabled
---

# isPrefetchingEnabled

A Boolean value that indicates whether to allow cell and data prefetching.

## Declaration

```swift
var isPrefetchingEnabled: Bool { get set }
```

## Discussion

Discussion When true, the table view may request cells in advance of displaying them. When false, the table view requests cells when they need to display. Setting this property to false also disables data prefetching. The default value of this property is true.

## See Also

### Providing the data and cells

- [dataSource](uikit/uitableview/datasource.md)
- [prefetchDataSource](uikit/uitableview/prefetchdatasource.md)
- [UITableViewDataSource](uikit/uitableviewdatasource.md)
- [UITableViewDataSourcePrefetching](uikit/uitableviewdatasourceprefetching.md)