Flip UIImageViews for Right to Left Languages

Question

iOS automatically flips the entire ViewController when using a RTL language like Arabic and does a great job with most of the layout, especially text. The default behavior is to flip the layout but leave UIImageViews the same orientation (since you generally don't want to reverse images).

Is there a way to specify that some images should be flipped (such as arrows) when the phone is set to a RTL language?

Answer 1

iOS 9 includes the imageFlippedForRightToLeftLayoutDirection method that you can use, that automatically flips the image in a UIImageView when in an RTL localization.

Answer 2

The best solution I found to date is marking the image in the assets file as mirror.

Answer 3

We can use imageFlippedForRightToLeftLayoutDirection which returns flipped image if current language is RTL(right to left). i.e

Objective-c

UIImage * flippedImage = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"imageName"] imageFlippedForRightToLeftLayoutDirection];

Swift 3

let flippedImage = UIImage(named: "imageName")?.imageFlippedForRightToLeftLayoutDirection()

Source: Apple Docs