How to avoid accidental overriding method or property in Objective-C

Question

For instance, I subclassed UILabel and added a method or property called -verticalTextAlignment to align text vertically.
And in the future, if

Answer 1

Prefixing your category methods are the safest way to avoid these conflicts in an every growing, non namespaced cocoa ecosystem.

It's quite valid and reasonable that framework creators, open source developers and other individual developers should prefix their class methods.

Quite often I write methods prefixed with my company initials, then continue with the method.

- (void)JCMyMethodNamedSimilarToBaseClass;