How to get monospaced numbers in UILabel on iOS 9

Question

At WWDC 2015, there was a session about the new “San Francisco” system font in iOS 9. It uses proportional number rendering instead of monospaced numbers by default when lin

Answer 1

Accepted solution works great, but was crashing with compiler optimization set to Fast(default for Release builds). Rewrote the code like this and now it does not:

extension UIFont
{
    var monospacedDigitFont: UIFont
    {
        return UIFont(descriptor: fontDescriptor().fontDescriptorByAddingAttributes([UIFontDescriptorFeatureSettingsAttribute: [[UIFontFeatureTypeIdentifierKey: kNumberSpacingType, UIFontFeatureSelectorIdentifierKey: kMonospacedNumbersSelector]]]), size: 0)
    }
}