Swift 4.0中有一个解决方案：

func viewDidLoad() {

    super.viewDidLoad()

    // 20 point top and left margin. Sized to leave 20 pt at right.
    let labelFrame = CGRect(x: 20, y: 20, width: 280, height: 150)
    let myLabel = UILabel(frame: labelFrame)
    myLabel.backgroundColor = UIColor.orange

    let labelText = "I am the very model of a modern Major-General, 
    I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral"
    myLabel.text = labelText

    // Tell the label to use an unlimited number of lines
    myLabel.numberOfLines = 0
    myLabel.sizeToFit()

    view.addSubview(myLabel) // add label
}

这是一个旧的解决方案，在iOS上使用自动布局>=6

我的解决方案：

自行拆分线条（忽略标签换行设置）自己绘制线（忽略标签对齐）

@interface UITopAlignedLabel : UILabel

@end

@implementation UITopAlignedLabel

#pragma mark Instance methods

- (NSArray*)splitTextToLines:(NSUInteger)maxLines {
    float width = self.frame.size.width;

    NSArray* words = [self.text componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];
    NSMutableArray* lines = [NSMutableArray array];

    NSMutableString* buffer = [NSMutableString string];    
    NSMutableString* currentLine = [NSMutableString string];

    for (NSString* word in words) {
        if ([buffer length] > 0) {
            [buffer appendString:@" "];
        }

        [buffer appendString:word];

        if (maxLines > 0 && [lines count] == maxLines - 1) {
            [currentLine setString:buffer];
            continue;
        }

        float bufferWidth = [buffer sizeWithFont:self.font].width;

        if (bufferWidth < width) {
            [currentLine setString:buffer];
        }
        else {
            [lines addObject:[NSString stringWithString:currentLine]];

            [buffer setString:word];
            [currentLine setString:buffer];
        }
    }

    if ([currentLine length] > 0) {
        [lines addObject:[NSString stringWithString:currentLine]];
    }

    return lines;
}

- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect {
    if ([self.text length] == 0) {
        return;
    }

    CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

    CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, self.textColor.CGColor);
    CGContextSetShadowWithColor(context, self.shadowOffset, 0.0f, self.shadowColor.CGColor);

    NSArray* lines = [self splitTextToLines:self.numberOfLines];
    NSUInteger numLines = [lines count];

    CGSize size = self.frame.size;
    CGPoint origin = CGPointMake(0.0f, 0.0f);

    for (NSUInteger i = 0; i < numLines; i++) {
        NSString* line = [lines objectAtIndex:i];

        if (i == numLines - 1) {
            [line drawAtPoint:origin forWidth:size.width withFont:self.font lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeTailTruncation];            
        }
        else {
            [line drawAtPoint:origin forWidth:size.width withFont:self.font lineBreakMode:UILineBreakModeClip];
        }

        origin.y += self.font.lineHeight;

        if (origin.y >= size.height) {
            return;
        }
    }
}

@end

如果您使用的是自动布局，请在代码或IB中将垂直内容HuggingPriority设置为1000。在IB中，您可能需要通过将其优先级设置为1然后删除来删除高度限制。

（截至2018年3月7日）

斯威夫特4

let maxFrameHeight = 75

myLabel = UILabel()
myLabel.frame = CGRect(x: 9, y: 9, width: 126, height: maxFrameHeight)
myLabel.text = "my labels text displayed"
myLabel.numberOfLines = 0

myLabel.sizeToFit()
let newFrameHeight = myLabel.frame.size.height
let safeNewHeight = min(newFrameHeight, maxFrameHeight)

myLabel.frame = CGRect(x: 9, y: 9, width: 126, height: safeNewHeight)

这将获得所需的结果，并确保UILabel的新高度不会超过您希望的该标签的特定最大高度。

一种更快（更脏）的方法是将UILabel的换行模式设置为“Clip”并添加固定数量的换行符。

myLabel.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeClip;
myLabel.text = [displayString stringByAppendingString:"\n\n\n\n"];

这种解决方案不适用于所有人——特别是，如果您仍然希望在字符串末尾显示“…”，如果它超过了您要显示的行数，则需要使用较长的代码段之一——但在很多情况下，这将满足您的需要。

对于Swift 3。。。

@IBDesignable class TopAlignedLabel: UILabel {
    override func drawText(in rect: CGRect) {
        if let stringText = text {
            let stringTextAsNSString = stringText as NSString
            let labelStringSize = stringTextAsNSString.boundingRect(with: CGSize(width: self.frame.width,height: CGFloat.greatestFiniteMagnitude),
                                                                            options: NSStringDrawingOptions.usesLineFragmentOrigin,
                                                                            attributes: [NSFontAttributeName: font],
                                                                            context: nil).size
            super.drawText(in: CGRect(x:0,y: 0,width: self.frame.width, height:ceil(labelStringSize.height)))
        } else {
            super.drawText(in: rect)
        }
    }
    override func prepareForInterfaceBuilder() {
        super.prepareForInterfaceBuilder()
        layer.borderWidth = 1
        layer.borderColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
    }
}