UIAlertController text alignment

Question

Is there a way to change the alignment of the message displayed inside a UIAlertController on iOS 8?

I believe accessing the subviews and changing it for the UILabel

Answer 1

Navigate to subview tree until you get to the UILabels for the title and the message

NSArray *viewArray = [[[[[[[[[[[[alertController view] subviews] firstObject] subviews] firstObject] subviews] firstObject] subviews] firstObject] subviews] firstObject] subviews];
UILabel *alertTitle = viewArray[0]
UILabel *alertMessage = viewArray[1];
alertMessage.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentLeft;

However, you may want to make an category for it

@interface UIAlertController (ShowMeTheLabels)

@property (nonatomic, strong) UILabel *titleLabel, *messageLabel;

@end

@implementation UIAlertController (ShowMeTheLabels)
@dynamic titleLabel;
@dynamic messageLabel;

- (NSArray *)viewArray:(UIView *)root {
    NSLog(@"%@", root.subviews);
    static NSArray *_subviews = nil;
    _subviews = nil;
    for (UIView *v in root.subviews) {
        if (_subviews) {
            break;
        }
        if ([v isKindOfClass:[UILabel class]]) {
            _subviews = root.subviews;
            return _subviews;
        }
        [self viewArray:v];
    }
    return _subviews;
}

- (UILabel *)titleLabel {
    return [self viewArray:self.view][0];
}

- (UILabel *)messageLabel {
    return [self viewArray:self.view][1];
}

@end

Then you can align the text like this

yourAlertController.messageLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentLeft;