UILabel is not auto-shrinking text to fit label size

Question

I have this strange issue, and im dealing with it for more than 8 hours now.. Depending on situation i have to calculate UILabels size dynamically,
e.g

Answer 1

In Swift 4 (Programmatically):

let label = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 200.0, height: 200.0))
label.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = true
label.numberOfLines = 0

label.text = "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum."

view.addSubview(label)

Answer 2

In case you are still searching for a better solution, I think this is what you want:

A Boolean value indicating whether the font size should be reduced in order to fit the title string into the label’s bounding rectangle (this property is effective only when the numberOfLines property is set to 1).

When setting this property, minimumScaleFactor MUST be set too (a good default is 0.5).

Swift

var adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth: Bool { get set }

Objective-C

@property(nonatomic) BOOL adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth;

---

A Boolean value indicating whether spacing between letters should be adjusted to fit the string within the label’s bounds rectangle.

Swift

var allowsDefaultTighteningForTruncation: Bool { get set }

Objective-C

@property(nonatomic) BOOL allowsDefaultTighteningForTruncation;

Source.

Answer 3

You can write like

UILabel *reviews = [[UILabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(14, 13,270,30)];//Set frame
reviews.numberOfLines=0;
reviews.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentLeft;
reviews.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial Rounded MT Bold" size:12];
reviews.textColor=[UIColor colorWithRed:0.0/255.0 green:0.0/255.0 blue:0.0/255.0 alpha:0.8]; 
reviews.backgroundColor=[UIColor clearColor];

You can calculate number of lines like that

CGSize maxlblSize = CGSizeMake(270,9999);
CGSize totalSize = [reviews.text sizeWithFont:reviews.font 
              constrainedToSize:maxlblSize lineBreakMode:reviews.lineBreakMode];

CGRect newFrame =reviews.frame;
newFrame.size.height = totalSize.height;
reviews.frame = newFrame;

CGFloat reviewlblheight = totalSize.height;

int lines=reviewlblheight/12;//12 is the font size of label

---

UILabel *lbl=[[UILabel alloc]init];
lbl.frame=CGRectMake(140,220 , 100, 25);//set frame as your requirement
lbl.font=[UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial" size:20];
[lbl setAutoresizingMask:UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFill];
[lbl setLineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeClip];
lbl.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth=YES;//This is main for shrinking font
lbl.text=@"HelloHelloHello";

Hope this will help you :-) waiting for your reply

Answer 4

Swift 4, Xcode 9.4.1

The solution that worked for me: I had a label within a collection view cell, and the label text was getting trimmed. Set the attributes as below on Storyboard

Lines = 0
LineBreak = Word Wrap
Set yourlabel's leading and trailing constraint = 0 (using Autolayout)

Answer 5

does not work if numberOfLines > 1 What i did made a condition like this-

if(lblRecLocation.text.length > 100)
    lblRecLocation.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"app_font_name" size:10];

Answer 6

This is for Swift 3 running Xcode 8.2.1 ( 8C1002 )

The best solution that I've found is to set a fixed width in your Storyboard or IB on the label. Set your constraints with constrain to margins. In your viewDidLoad add the following lines of code:

override func viewDidLoad() {
            super.viewDidLoad()

            label.numberOfLines = 1
            label.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = true
            label.minimumScaleFactor = 0.5
        }

This worked like a charm and it doesn't overflow to a new line and shrinks the text to fit the width of the label without any weird issues and works in Swift 3.