My goal is to create a tableFooterView that does resize itself by being connected to the contained UILabel.

If I put the layout constraints on the UILabel to keep a constant space to all four edges plus that the height of the label can extend.

Using the constraints shown above, the label won't resize at all, as you can see from the first screenshot.

But if I remove the bottom constraint so that the label view can increase it's height, the label is growing as I would expect.

The table view does get the size of the footer view by assigning the footer to the table:

Resizing the footer view won't inform the table view about the new height.

What am I missing? At what point should I update and inform the tableview about the new height of the footer view?

Thanks to the pull request of phaibin the problem described above is solved:

For further details see: http://prod.lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/2014/Jun/msg00127.html

Updated the example to create a tableview that requires scrolling.