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Asked: 2026-06-12T15:42:27+00:00

Sometimes the autolayout constraints snap to a wrong anchor point – like when I

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Sometimes the autolayout constraints snap to a wrong anchor point – like when I want a control to be anchored to a control above it and the autolayout constraint gets anchored to the bottom of the window. Is there a way to move the constraint? An ASCII art should make this more clear. This is what I have:

+------------------------+
|                        |
| [x] Some checkbox      |
|                        |
| [x] Another checkbox   |
|     |                  |
|     | ← autolayout     |
|     |   constraint     |
|     |                  |
+-----+------------------+

And this is what I want instead:

+------------------------+
|                        |
| [x] Some checkbox      |
|     | ← A.C.           |
| [x] Another checkbox   |
|                        |
|                        |
|                        |
|                        |
+------------------------+

I can anchor the constraint to the upper checkbox by moving the lower checkbox upwards, but that’s not what I want, I want the vertical space to be larger. (The checkboxes are just for an illustration, my real use case has different views.)

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  1. Editorial Team
    1. Select 2 checkboxes
    2. Click the “H” icon in the right-bottom of the interface builder
    3. Select Vertical Spacing

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    Now select the useless constraints and delete it:

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