uicollectionview remove top padding

Question

I have a UICollectionView that is the entire view but it lives inside \"view\" (it is not UICollectionViewController). Adding a cell to this collection view shows it in the

Answer 1

You can fix top padding issue by considering one of the following method.

Method 1: Natural way to fix your problem by setting up your collectionView dimensions properly from StoryBoard.

Method 2: **Updated**

You can validate collection frame in viewDidLayoutSubviews or viewWillLayoutSubviews

  override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
     collectionView.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: view.frame.width, height: view.frame.height)
}

Method 3: You can Adjust Scroll View Insets from your StoryBoard Attributes Inspector.

Method 4: You can fix this issue programatically by adjusting CollectionView contentInset.

collectionView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: **Any Value**, left: 0, bottom: 0, right: 0)

Output with top padding 5:

Output with top padding 44:

Output with top padding 64: