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ios8 cell constraints break when adding disclosure indicator


I just had the same problem. I want to layout an image-view on the left hand with a label on its right which fills the space between the image-view and the right (or trailing) border of superview (which is the cell's content-view). Accessory view is set to disclosure indicator as well.As in your case the conflicting constraints where all H-based and one I found in the logs where fittingSizeHTarget. I didn't found out what this means nor where this was coming from, but I found your post here.

The following did the trick for me:

Lower the priority of your label's trailing-to-superview constraint. (I chose 990).

I assume, that the layout system (with the disclosure indicator visible) for what ever reason can't satisfy all the constraints anymore, so it breaks one. But if you lower the priority, it still tries to satisfy the constraint, but doesn't break it as the conflicting constraint(s) have higher priority.

Hope this solves your problem as well.


Please pay attention to what Stephen says in the comment section of the upvoted answer. The upvoted answer is somewhat correct, but it's important to understand why it should only be used in certain scenarios.

Priorities are usually used in context where element A has a constraint saying height is equal or less/more than 300, and element B has one says height is equal or less/more than 500. Then autolayout can satisfy both conditions based on their priorities.

In this particular example, both constraints are set to specific value and lowering priority essentially tells to ignore that constraint if it's impossible to satisfy (there's no "partially ignore it"). However UILabel has an exception - default UILabel behaviour is to resize itself to fit the content unless it's constrained by additional margins (autosize constraint hides under fittingSizeHTarget name) and this behaviour sometimes shows false warnings. In reality this constraint will be ignored in the runtime, but before it becomes disabled internally it will file a warning. Therefore, even though we tell to ignore one of our constraints by lowering its priority (the one we set priority to 900), since autosize constraint will be ignored in runtime, our 900 priority will be applied and satisfied.


Raimunda's answer above explaining about the intrinsic size that happens on labels, buttons, etc being where this fittingSizeHTarget log is coming from was spot on. While you can leave it and let the system deal with it, it's a risky hack, because you're relying on the system to break an unwanted constraint...which it may not do in future releases. And in some cases, as in a view example I recently dealt with, lowering the priority of the trailing constraint to the outside safe area didn't prevent the label from overrunning (it did, however, fix the log warning lol).

For content issues like this, use the Content Hugging Priority and Content Compression Resistance Priority values. If you know that your label, for example, will want to increase in vertical height but constrain to a horizontal value, then make the vertical content hugging priority (Content hugging = the view resisting being made bigger) lower than the horizontal.

The Compression resistance is the opposite of this.

Then set your outside trailing constraint to a greater than or equal and you're good to go.

In the stack view below, the label titled Fake 4 actually overran and wanted to become two lines. That caused a conflict involving fittingSizeHTarget (the intrinsic content size wanted to stay on one line and overrun the view width). The key here was lowering the Horizontal Compression Resistance priority to lower than ALL of the other content priorities. This allowed me to lower the priority of the >= constraint on the trailing value, and everything behaves as expected.

Anyway, tweaking this stuff is annoying as heck, but those Hugging/Compression values, combined with some form of >= / <= are usually the answer.

Hope this helps.

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