Hiding some views in the interface builder

Admdrew,

Unfortunately there is no way you can do that in storyboard. The only thing you can do to view the Views which is overlapped by others, is drag it to the top.

For example, I drag PickerView to the red line to make it to the top, then edit PickerView, and drag it back to the previous position when finish: https://www.dropbox.com/s/e18nmr9mya9y0s8/DizSfOW_3F3a_wV4YVXgFk__h0PoFWbd3rs1HbcTN-4.png

I prefer to use many View Controllers, it's better for your performance. But I must say that in some cases, you still have to use many UIView place on top of others, and I think this is the best way to edit each View.

Cheers,

UPDATE AUGUST 17, 2015

Since XCODE 6.x already added in the feature called "Installed" in the right panel, so now you can easily disable the upper view for temporary by uncheck "Installed", then do-whatever-you-are-planning-to-do with the lower view. Just remember to return it to be checked after you finish.

Step by step following this:1. Click to select the upper view.2. On the right panel, look for "Installed".3. Click to uncheck it.That's it!

Cheers!

You'd use the Hidden property in the Attributes Inspector. But I'm not sure is this is what you'd like to achieve.
By doing that you'd need to set the attribute to Hidden = NO before running your app.

I think that using groups of views could be also a better way to handle lot of views in the same xib files. You could do that Editor -> Embed In -> View. Selecting all related views and making groups could help you to work with them easily by hiding or moving some groups.