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In Xcode 4, there was a never-quite-fixed bug where Xcode prevented you from resizing views (some silly "Design feature") - you had to make sure you set all the topbar/statusbar/navbar/tabbar to "none" before it would unlock the controls.
XCode 5 appears to have taken this bug ... and extended it!
Now it's completely impossible to edit the size of a UIView in a NIB/XIB file. Nothing I do makes a difference, the dimensions are always readonly. I really, really don't want to write source code (so that our NIB + Storyboards will now always look wrong) to workaround this bug, but I can't find any other way.
Anyone found a workaroind inside Xcode itself?
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In fact, the acronym "NIB" comes from "NeXTSTEP Interface Builder", and "XIB" from "Xcode Interface Builder". NIBs and XIBs are effectively the same thing: XIBs are newer and are used while you're developing, whereas NIBs are what get produced when you create a build.
Application interface created with Interface Builder, a graphical editor for designing and testing user interfaces; saved in a text-based flat-file format, introduced in Interface Builder 3.0. NOTE: XIB files are also called "development-time format" files.
In the Attributes inspector, in the Simulated Metrics section, change the size to None. This unlocks the view and you can drag to resize it.
EDIT: As noted in the comments below, in more recent versions of Xcode you must set the attribute to Freeform, not None.
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There is the solution for XCode 9.0
Select your view and set simulated Metrics as this :
After this, you can edit your view's size :
DEPRECATED :
There is the solution for XCode 8.1
Select your view and set simulated Metrics as this :
After this, you can edit your view's size :
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