Question: On iOS 6, my UITableView's section index would distribute all of its items evenly across the height of the table view. In iOS 7 all of the items are clumped together in the middle, making the items difficult to tap. Is there any way to space them out?

Answer: 
Here is a implementation of [Anton Malmygin](https://stackoverflow.com/a/20038002/1107651) answer, you can add more space by just adding more empty itens on the array:

First, let's create an array with the fake index.

```
    NSArray *array = self.mydataArray; // here are your true index
    self.sectionsTitle = [NSMutableArray array];
    int n = array.count;

    // In IOS 7 all index of the items are clumped together in the middle,
    // making the items difficult to tap.
    // As workaround we added "fake" sections index
    // reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18923729/uitableview-section-index-spacing-on-ios-7

    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++){
        [self.sectionsTitle  addObject:array[i]];
        [self.sectionsTitle  addObject:@""];
    }

```

Then, you can implement tableview delegate methods with the following approach:

```
- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    // In IOS 7 all index of the items are clumped together in the middle,
    // making the items difficult to tap.
    // As workaround we added "fake" sections index
    // reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18923729/uitableview-section-index-spacing-on-ios-7
    if ([sectionsTitle[section] isEqualToString:@""]){
        return 0;
    }
    return x; // return your desire section height 
}

- (UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    // In IOS 7 all index of the items are clumped together in the middle,
    // making the items difficult to tap.
    // As workaround we added "fake" sections index
    // reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18923729/uitableview-section-index-spacing-on-ios-7
    if ([sectionsTitle[section] isEqualToString:@""]){
        return nil;
    }else{
       // return your desire header view here, 
       // if you are using the default section header view, 
       // you don't need to implement this method
       return // return your custom view
    }
}

- (NSArray *)sectionIndexTitlesForTableView:(UITableView *)tableView {
    return self.sectionsTitle;
}

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView sectionForSectionIndexTitle:(NSString *)title atIndex:(NSInteger)index {
    // In IOS 7 all index of the items are clumped together in the middle,
    // making the items difficult to tap.
    // As workaround we added "fake" sections index
    // reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18923729/uitableview-section-index-spacing-on-ios-7
    if ([title isEqualToString:@""]){
         return -1;
    }
    return [sectionsTitle indexOfObject:title];
}

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    // In IOS 7 all index of the items are clumped together in the middle,
    // making the items difficult to tap.
    // As workaround we added "fake" sections index
    // reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18923729/uitableview-section-index-spacing-on-ios-7
    if ([sectionsTitle[section] isEqualToString:@""]){
        return 0;
    }
    return // your logic here;
}

```

And here is the result:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/R5iPO.png)
There is a slightly easier way to complete Anton's suggestion, also it can be expanded to any number of indexes per section (instead of just having two as Anton suggested). So you add the number of extra index titles you want. In this example I used 4.

So first you add the things to an `indexTitles` array, in `viewDidLoad` or whatever.
NOTE: This can also be done dynamically if you are adding content to the tableView
asynchronously, that's why I added the if statement, so as long as its not the first
one it will replace the empty strings with periods. This is so there will be no stray
periods at the end

```
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSArray *indexTitles;

- (void) addIndexTitle:(NSString *) indexTitle {
        if ([self.indexTitles count]) {
            NSInteger last = self.indexTitles.count;
            self.indexTitles[last - 1] = @".";
            self.indexTitles[last - 2] = @"."; // Change the number of these depending
            self.indexTitles[last - 3] = @"."; // on the number of lines in the index titles
        }
        [self.indexTitles addObject:indexTitle];
        [self.indexTitles addObject:@""];  // Add different strings here for multiline 
        [self.indexTitles addObject:@""];  // index titles
        [self.indexTitles addObject:@""];
}

```

Now we can just use the modulo operator depending on how many strings we have per index Title.

```
- (NSInteger) tableView:(UITableView *)tableView sectionForSectionIndexTitle:(NSString *)title atIndex:(NSInteger)index {
    index = index - index % 4;  // This is the index of the section you want
    NSInteger newIndex = index;
    // do any other processing here (if need be) to determine the correct index here
    return newIndex;

```

}

Don't forget to declare the the section index titles for the tableView.

```
- (NSArray *)sectionIndexTitlesForTableView:(UITableView *)tableView {
    return self.indexTitles;
}

```

Here is one that I made that loads the content dynamically:

![example](https://puu.sh/6ZP6U.png)