How to check if UILabel is truncated?

Question

I have a UILabel that can be varying lengths depending on whether or not my app is running in portrait or landscape mode on an iPhone or iPad. When the text is

Answer 1

I have written a category for working with UILabel's truncation. Works on iOS 7 and later. Hope it helps ! uilabel tail truncation

@implementation UILabel (Truncation)

- (NSRange)truncatedRange
{
    NSTextStorage *textStorage = [[NSTextStorage alloc] initWithAttributedString:[self attributedText]];

    NSLayoutManager *layoutManager = [[NSLayoutManager alloc] init];
    [textStorage addLayoutManager:layoutManager];

    NSTextContainer *textContainer = [[NSTextContainer alloc] initWithSize:[self bounds].size];
    textContainer.lineFragmentPadding = 0;
    [layoutManager addTextContainer:textContainer];

    NSRange truncatedrange = [layoutManager truncatedGlyphRangeInLineFragmentForGlyphAtIndex:0];
    return truncatedrange;
}

- (BOOL)isTruncated
{
    return [self truncatedRange].location != NSNotFound;
}

- (NSString *)truncatedText
{
    NSRange truncatedrange = [self truncatedRange];
    if (truncatedrange.location != NSNotFound)
    {
        return [self.text substringWithRange:truncatedrange];
    }

    return nil;
}

@end