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safeAreaInsets in UIView is 0 on an iPhone X

I am updating my app to adapt it for iPhone X. All views work fine by now except one. I have a view controller that presents a custom UIView that covers the whole screen. Before I was using UIScreen.main.bounds to find out the size of the view before all layout was done (I need it for putting the correct itemSize for a collectionView). I thought that now I could do something like UIScreen.main.bounds.size.height - safeAreaInsets.bottom to get the right usable size. The problem is, safeAreaInsets returns (0,0,0,0) trying on an iPhone X (Simulator). Any ideas? In other views, I get the right numbers for safeAreaInsets.

Thank you!

Solution

  • I already figure out the solution: I was doing all the implementation in the init of the view. safeAreaInsets has the correct size in layoutSubviews()