Calculating UILabel Text Size

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All of the [NSString sizeWithFont...] methods are deprecated in iOS 7. Use this instead.

CGRect labelRect = [text
                    boundingRectWithSize:labelSize
                    options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin
                    attributes:@{
                     NSFontAttributeName : [UIFont systemFontOfSize:14]
                    }
                    context:nil];

Also see https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsstring/1619914-sizewithfont.

UPDATE – example of boundingRectWithSize output

Per your comment I did a simple test. The code and output is below.

// code to generate a bounding rect for text at various font sizes
NSString *text = @"This is a long sentence. Wonder how much space is needed?";
for (NSNumber *n in @[@(12.0f), @(14.0f), @(18.0f)]) {
    CGFloat fontSize = [n floatValue];
    CGRect r = [text boundingRectWithSize:CGSizeMake(200, 0)
                                  options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin
                               attributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:fontSize]}
                                  context:nil];
    NSLog(@"fontSize = %f\tbounds = (%f x %f)",
          fontSize,
          r.size.width,
          r.size.height);
}

this produces the following output (note that the bounds change as expected as the font size gets larger):

fontSize = 12.000000    bounds = (181.152008 x 28.632000)
fontSize = 14.000000    bounds = (182.251999 x 50.105999)
fontSize = 18.000000    bounds = (194.039993 x 64.421997)

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