Consider I have the following text in a UILabel
(a long line of dynamic text):
Since the alien army vastly outnumbers the team, players m
UILabel extension based on this answer for Swift 4 and above
extension UILabel {
func retrieveTextHeight () -> CGFloat {
let attributedText = NSAttributedString(string: self.text!, attributes: [NSFontAttributeName:self.font])
let rect = attributedText.boundingRect(with: CGSize(width: self.frame.size.width, height: CGFloat.greatestFiniteMagnitude), options: .usesLineFragmentOrigin, context: nil)
return ceil(rect.size.height)
}
}
Can be used like:
self.labelHeightConstraint.constant = self.label.retrieveTextHeight()