System font renders as Times New Roman on iOS 13

Question

I have some UILabel with the default system font. But when I install my app on iPad or iPhone with iOS 13.1 the fonts change to something like Times New Roman! Why does this happen? I am sure the label's text is Plain and the font is System. How can I fix this issue?

PS: I have downloaded all SF fonts from Apple web site, and still no luck!

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 04 '19 at 12:58

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I found the solution, the problem comes with detecting the current label's font. I changed:

descriptions.font = UIFont(name: (descriptions.font?.fontName)!, size: 22)

to

descriptions.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 22)

and problem solved.

answered Oct 04 '19 at 12:58

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did not helped for me – Yaroslav Dukal Feb 17 '20 at 23:49
Ya this doesn't solve many cases. Overall, it appears to be times where asking for certain weights and size combinations of system fonts renders null and times new roman is a fallback. – TahoeWolverine Apr 14 '20 at 21:38

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 23 '20 at 11:29

Use UIFontDescriptor

I was having the same issue on iOS 13. Fixed it by using fontDescriptor instead of fontName. I have UILabel in my storyboard connected to its view controller via IBOutlet with font as Text Styles - Callout.

@IBOutlet weak var lblText: UILabel!

Below one didn't worked as expected and showing Times New Roman font:

let font = UIFont.init(name: lblText.font.fontName, size: 50.0)!
lblText.font = font
lblText.text = "Times Coding :)"

Solution using UIFontDescriptor:

let font = UIFont.init(descriptor: lblText.font.fontDescriptor, size: 50.0)
lblText.font = font
lblText.text = "Times Coding :)"

This way it will pick the font you set to a label in your storyboard, you don't need to hardcode the font name.

Akhlaq Rao · Answer 3 · 2020-01-28T22:37:25.003

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It seems like Apple is pushing to use the initializer with the weightage. Passing it with the name seems to break it ".SFUI-Regular".

The workaround for this is to use the function with weight like this : UIFont(systemFont:UIFont.systemFontSize, weight: .regular).

edited Jan 28 '20 at 22:37

answered Jan 28 '20 at 18:54

Akhlaq Rao

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System font renders as Times New Roman on iOS 13

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