Resize UILabel with sizeWithFont:constrainedToSize:lineBreakMode: deprecated in iOS7

Question

If the sizeWithFont:constrainedToSize:lineBreakMode: method is deprecated in iOS7, how can I automatically resize a UILabel to dynamically adjust its height and width to fit the text?

Answer 1

I ended up using this. Works for me. This does not work with IBOutlets object but useful when computing dynamically the height of the text on uitableview's heightForRowAtIndexPath: method.

NSDictionary *attributesDictionary = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                                           [UIFont fontWithName:@"FontName" size:15], NSFontAttributeName,
                                                            nil];

CGRect frame = [label.text boundingRectWithSize:CGSizeMake(263, 2000.0)
                                                     options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin
                                                  attributes:attributesDictionary
                                                     context:nil];

CGSize size = frame.size;

Answer 2

This should work in iOS6 and iOS7, but will break your label constraints (you need to set them all back programatically if needed):

-(void)resizeHeightForLabel: (UILabel*)label {
    label.numberOfLines = 0;
    UIView *superview = label.superview;
    [label removeFromSuperview];
    [label removeConstraints:label.constraints];
    CGRect labelFrame = label.frame;
    if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] >= 7) {
        CGRect expectedFrame = [label.text boundingRectWithSize:CGSizeMake(label.frame.size.width, 9999)
                                                        options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin
                                                     attributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                                                 label.font, NSFontAttributeName,
                                                                 nil]
                                                        context:nil];
        labelFrame.size = expectedFrame.size;
        labelFrame.size.height = ceil(labelFrame.size.height); //iOS7 is not rounding up to the nearest whole number
    } else {
#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wdeprecated-declarations"
        labelFrame.size = [label.text sizeWithFont:label.font
                                 constrainedToSize:CGSizeMake(label.frame.size.width, 9999)
                                     lineBreakMode:label.lineBreakMode];
#pragma GCC diagnostic warning "-Wdeprecated-declarations"
    }
    label.frame = labelFrame;
    [superview addSubview:label];
}

Add this method to your viewController and use it like this:

[self resizeHeightForLabel:myLabel];
//set new constraints here if needed