For me the problem was in using trailing leading alignment on UIButton itself. Safe area seems to be completely fine to use – it’s backward compatible and it translates into proper super view margins. But this feature is iOS 11 only, so use standard left / right alignment instead if you are targeting lower iOS … Read more
I managed to work with the new Safe Area layout guides and maintain backwards compatibility with iOS 9 and iOS 10: (EDIT: as pointed out in the comments by @NickEntin, this implementation will presume there is a status bar present, which won’t be true in landscape on the iPhone X. Resulting in to much space … Read more
Here is sample code (Ref from: Safe Area Layout Guide): If you create your constraints in code use the safeAreaLayoutGuide property of UIView to get the relevant layout anchors. Let’s recreate the above Interface Builder example in code to see how it looks: Assuming we have the green view as a property in our view … Read more
Safe Area is a layout guide (Safe Area Layout Guide). The layout guide representing the portion of your view that is unobscured by bars and other content. In iOS 11+, Apple is deprecating the top and bottom layout guides and replacing them with a single safe area layout guide. When the view is visible onscreen, … Read more
Try this : In Objective C if (@available(iOS 11.0, *)) { UIWindow *window = UIApplication.sharedApplication.windows.firstObject; CGFloat topPadding = window.safeAreaInsets.top; CGFloat bottomPadding = window.safeAreaInsets.bottom; } In Swift if #available(iOS 11.0, *) { let window = UIApplication.shared.keyWindow let topPadding = window?.safeAreaInsets.top let bottomPadding = window?.safeAreaInsets.bottom } In Swift – iOS 13.0 and above // Use the first … Read more