Specifying z-order (sendSubviewToBack, etc.) on UIStackView

Question

According to the Apple docs:

The order of the subviews array defines the Z-order of the subviews. If the views overlap, subviews with a lower index appear behind subviews with a higher index.

I can see that this is the case, as I am trying to have its arrangedSubviews manually reordered using sendSubviewToBack, which is having no effect. How can I adjust the z-order of the arrangedSubviews in a UIStackView?

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See the answer here https://mcmap.net/q/517252/-overlapping-views-in-uistackview – Commitment

Answer 1

Use this!

yourArrangedSubview.layer.zPosition = xxx

Overmatch

This seems to work, but it seems to be undocumented behavior. On which iOS versions will work? will it break in the future? I wouldn't rely on this except for cosmetic changes that you are OK might break at some point. – Eat

Hard to say. I wrote this answer several years ago. Seems to still be working nicely. I would imagine as long as UIStackView and UIView don't change too dramatically, this should work. – Overmatch