How to get safe area top and bottom insets in Swift 5

Question

I am looking for a way to get safe area inset values for the top and bottom of the screen (to position content correctly in order to make it not covered by a notch or software home button).

I looked around stackoverflow and was able to find this approach, however I am getting deprecation warning in XCode saying that keyWindow should not be used.

let window = UIApplication.shared.keyWindow
let topPadding = window?.safeAreaInsets.top
let bottomPadding = window?.safeAreaInsets.bottom

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 01 '20 at 10:09

After iOS13 keyWindow concept in iOS anymore as a single app can have multiple windows. So just take the first one :

    let window = UIApplication.shared.windows.filter {$0.isKeyWindow}.first
    let topPadding = window?.safeAreaInsets.top
    let bottomPadding = window?.safeAreaInsets.bottom

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 01 '20 at 10:08

You could try using the view controller view to get the safe area, or you can solve the deprecation as below:

let window = UIApplication.shared.windows.filter {$0.isKeyWindow}.first
let topPadding = window?.safeAreaInsets.top
let bottomPadding = window?.safeAreaInsets.bottom

See also : https://stackoverflow.com/a/57899013/3172445

How to get safe area top and bottom insets in Swift 5

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