Disable Safe Area Layout Guides For UIView Programmatically

Question

Safe area layout guides can be disabled in Interface Builder by unchecking the Use Safe Area Layout Guides. How can this be done in code?

I didn't notice an iOS11-available boolean that directly corresponds with the checkbox.

Elburt

Why are you trying to disable safe area layout guides in code? In code you can specify whether you are constraining views to the safe area or not. – Statehood

UIView’s safeAreaInsets are not zero and rendering on screen when insetsLayoutMarginsFromSafeArea is false. – Elburt

Also safeAreaLayoutGuide is a readonly property on UIView, so this isn't just some that applies to xibs and storyboards in Interface Builder. I just don't know how to disable it. – Elburt

Answer 1

I think the only way to accomplish this programmatically is to override the safeAreaLayoutGuide property.

override var safeAreaLayoutGuide: UILayoutGuide {
    return UILayoutGuide()
}

When you disable it through IB it still returns a UILayoutGuide but with zero layoutFrame, by returning an instance of UILayoutGuide, you are basically doing the same.

Spool

Answer 2

You can do it in size inspector pane of the view:

Limbic