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# safeAreaInsets

The insets that you use to determine the safe area for this view.

```
var safeAreaInsets: UIEdgeInsets { get }
```

## Discussion

The safe area of a view reflects the area not covered by navigation bars, tab bars, toolbars, and other ancestors that obscure a view controller’s view. (In tvOS, the safe area reflects the area not covered by the screen’s bezel.) You obtain the safe area for a view by applying the insets in this property to the view’s bounds rectangle. If the view is not currently installed in a view hierarchy, or is not yet visible onscreen, the edge insets in this property are `0`.

For the view controller’s root view, the insets account for the status bar, other visible bars, and any additional insets that you specified using the [`additionalSafeAreaInsets`](/documentation/UIKit/UIViewController/additionalSafeAreaInsets) property of your view controller. For other views in the view hierarchy, the insets reflect only the portion of the view that is covered. For example, if a view is entirely within the safe area of its superview, the edge insets in this property are `0`.

You might use this property at runtime to adjust the position of your view’s content programmatically.

## See Also

[`overscanCompensationInsets`](/documentation/UIKit/UIScreen/overscanCompensationInsets)

The edge inset values needed to avoid clipping the rectangle.


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