How to change left icon in UITableView editing mode - ios

I've seen many posts about how to change the "Delete" texts that appears on the right when editing an UITableView.
But what I need to do is to change the image that appears on the left when a UITableViewCell is editable.
I've tried with editingAccessoryView property, but it appears on the right as the normal accesoryView.
Is it possible to change the left delete (-) icon?

You cannot change the (-) icon, however, you can implement your own editing style.
Check UITableView's setEditing:animated: method where you can make your editing style on the cell

Directly we can not change it but if you want then you can customize it. See the below link which help you:
Customized Demo Code: https://github.com/teameh/TableViewCustomEditControls
To change the color theme only: http://www.cumulations.com/blogs/11/How-to-customize-UITableViews-editing-mode

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