UILabel not wrapping text correctly sometimes (auto layout)

Question

I have a uilabel setup in a view. It doesn\'t have a width constraint, but its width is instead determined by a leading constraint to the thumbnail image, and a trailing con

Answer 1

I had the same problem and solved it using a suggestion from this answer. In a subclass of UILabel I placed this code:

- (void)layoutSubviews
{
    [super layoutSubviews];
    self.preferredMaxLayoutWidth = self.bounds.size.width;
}

I don't understand why this is not the default behavior of UILabel, or at least why you cannot just enable this behavior via a flag.

I am a little concerned that preferredMaxLayoutWidth is being set in the middle of the layout process, but I see no easy way around that.