Xcode 8 - Previous storyboards getting distorted

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Created Sep ’16

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I rescently updated to Xcode 8. When I checked the storyboard of my existing project, it is all distorted because of the new update of traits I guess. I views are either misplaced or most of them out of screen. On running the project, the view is distorted on real device too (without any of my code changes).

My project has some 20 screens. If I have to again update the frames and constraint one by one, I wonder how much time it would take for the rest of my projects or to be general any app having quite a number of screens.

What is the proposed solution for this and how to adapt the existing storyboards to this new big change ?

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Answer 1

yousefnjr OP

Sep ’16

I'm having the same issue. All my frames were laid out, constraints were good, and didn't have any warnings. After upgrading to XCode 8, I have "999+" warnings and the views are all over the place. For many of them I can select the entire VC and hit update frames, which fixes everything. However, that won't work for any of my table views, and I'm having to manually click on each table view cell and hit update frames... super tedious.

Somewhere between 40-50 VC's 😢

If I had to guess, I think it's probably related to the new storyboard device layouts

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Gustavo@Cycloid OP

Sep ’16

It's on all new storyboards too.

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Erezdev OP

Sep ’16

Did someone opened a bug report for this issue?

Had so much trouble with this, i went back to the xcode 7.3.1, too bad, i liked the new one and love swift 3, but can't use it like that.

Any one knows how apple deals with this kind of stuff? this is really big... how do other people uses the xcode 8?

Any answers?

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michaelDZ OP

Sep ’16

I have the same issue While developing I used th anyW anyH (width = 600). After updating to Xcode 8 all the View controllers which are not set alone get a diffrent size. As a resullt it distorted all the layout.
One option is to go screen by screen and update frames (actully i think this is the correct way to do).
Second option select the main Controller and set free size back to 600 (most of the controllers are inferred so they will get the same size) but i am not sure how will it influence on the new features whoch Apple so try to push.
Third option is discard in git the changes apple made by Updateing to Xcode 8.(but I noticed they alsoo added some new features so I doubt this solution is good.)

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sumit.anantwar OP

Sep ’16

Well, we as Apple developers have got used to this kind of torturing... with every new release we have to drastically change all our workflow with tons of efforts... and Apple also wants us to feel "good" about this!

Anyways... downgrading to Xcode 7 and waiting for the news...

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Answer 6

Wharfy OP

Sep ’16

I am also facing similar issues with Xcode 8. While i open my existing old project with storyboards, most of the UIViews and all the UIScrollView subviews are miss aligning and subview's height and width becomes double (like width:320 becomes 640). It looks like there is a layout bug in Xcode 8. Mostly the issues are with UIScrollView subviews layout. On redesigning layout, saved and closed the Xcode. If i open the same project with Xcode 8 again, this time again layout frame is changing for scrollviews and few UITabeViewCell contents centring to one location. Too much time is wasting because of this bug. We cannot use Xcode 8 until a new release comes from Apple.

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