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I am following the Stanford lectures on developing apps for iOS and I've run into a bit of a problem. The lecturer says to click on a label from the Document Outline and then go to Editor > Size to fit contents in order to remove the fixed size constraints. However my problem is that "Size to fit contents" is disabled and I cannot click it (see image).

disabled size to fit contents

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

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    click an empty area in your storyboard, then click the label again. That usually helps. Commented Aug 3, 2013 at 13:37

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I fixed the issue by dragging around the labels and resizing them (randomly) manually and then the option was enabled!

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you can also clear all constraints to that label or any UIView with button Resolve Auto Layout Issues→Clear Constraints in IB, in Xcode 5+.
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OK this is one that has bugged me for a while. But I finally figured out that if you tap one of the corner handles of the label (you will briefly see a diagonal line mouse icon for resizing) then the "size to fit contents" option is re-enabled.

This also works for getting the "horizontal rule" and "vertical rule" options back if you tap on one of the corner handles of a view.

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