迅速回答:

func scaleDown(image: UIImage, withSize: CGSize) -> UIImage {
    let scale = UIScreen.main.scale
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(withSize, false, scale)
    image.draw(in: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: withSize.width, height: withSize.height))
    let newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
    return newImage!
}

为什么这么复杂?我认为使用系统API可以达到同样的效果:

UIImage *largeImage;
CGFloat ratio = 0.4; // you want to get a new image that is 40% the size of large image.
UIImage *newImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:largeImage.CGImage
                                        scale:1/ratio
                                  orientation:largeImage.imageOrientation];
// notice the second argument, it is 1/ratio, not ratio.

唯一的问题是你应该传递目标比率的倒数作为第二个参数，因为根据文档，第二个参数指定原始图像与新缩放图像的比率。

这里有一个简单的方法:

    UIImage * image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"image"];
    CGSize sacleSize = CGSizeMake(10, 10);
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(sacleSize, NO, 0.0);
    [image drawInRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, sacleSize.width, sacleSize.height)];
    UIImage * resizedImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

resizedImage是一个新的图像。

如果你想做一个UIImage的缩略图(按比例调整大小或可能涉及到一些裁剪)，检查UIImage+Resize类别，它允许你使用简洁的，类似imagemagick的语法:

UIImage* squareImage       = [image resizedImageByMagick: @"320x320#"];

正确的Swift 3.0 iOS 10+解决方案:使用ImageRenderer和闭包语法:

func imageWith(newSize: CGSize) -> UIImage {
    let image = UIGraphicsImageRenderer(size: newSize).image { _ in
        draw(in: CGRect(origin: .zero, size: newSize))
    }
        
    return image.withRenderingMode(renderingMode)
}

这是Objective-C版本:

@implementation UIImage (ResizeCategory)
- (UIImage *)imageWithSize:(CGSize)newSize
{
    UIGraphicsImageRenderer *renderer = [[UIGraphicsImageRenderer alloc] initWithSize:newSize];
    UIImage *image = [renderer imageWithActions:^(UIGraphicsImageRendererContext*_Nonnull myContext) {
        [self drawInRect:(CGRect) {.origin = CGPointZero, .size = newSize}];
    }];
    return [image imageWithRenderingMode:self.renderingMode];
}
@end

下面是iwasrob对上述类别的修改。它保持原始图像的纵横比，而不是扭曲它。

- (UIImage*)scaleToSizeKeepAspect:(CGSize)size {
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(size);

    CGFloat ws = size.width/self.size.width;
    CGFloat hs = size.height/self.size.height;

    if (ws > hs) {
        ws = hs/ws;
        hs = 1.0;
    } else {
        hs = ws/hs;
        ws = 1.0;
    }

    CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
    CGContextTranslateCTM(context, 0.0, size.height);
    CGContextScaleCTM(context, 1.0, -1.0);

    CGContextDrawImage(context, CGRectMake(size.width/2-(size.width*ws)/2,
        size.height/2-(size.height*hs)/2, size.width*ws,
        size.height*hs), self.CGImage);

    UIImage* scaledImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();

    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

    return scaledImage;
}