Autolayout - intrinsic size of UIButton does not include title insets

Question

If I have a UIButton arranged using autolayout, its size adjusts nicely to fit its content.

If I set an image as button.image, the instrinsic size again

Answer 1

This thread is a bit old, but I just ran into this myself and was able to solve it by using a negative inset. For example, substitute your desired padding values here:

UIButton* myButton = [[UIButton alloc] init];
// setup some autolayout constraints here
myButton.titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(-desiredBottomPadding,
                                            -desiredRightPadding,
                                            -desiredTopPadding,
                                            -desiredLeftPadding);

Combined with the right autolayout constraints, you end up with an auto-resizing button which contains an image and text! Seen below with desiredLeftPadding set to 10.

You can see that the actual frame of the button doesn't encompass the label (since the label is shifted 10 points to the right, outside the bounds), but we've achieved 10 points of padding between the text and the picture.