---
title: usesHyphenation
framework: uikit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: uikit/nstextlayoutmanager/useshyphenation
---

# usesHyphenation

A Boolean values that controls whether the text layout manager attempts to hyphenate when wrapping lines.

## Declaration

```swift
var usesHyphenation: Bool { get set }
```

## Discussion

Discussion Defaults to true.

## See Also

### Configuring global layout manager options

- [layoutQueue](uikit/nstextlayoutmanager/layoutqueue.md)
- [renderingAttributesValidator](uikit/nstextlayoutmanager/renderingattributesvalidator.md)
- [usesFontLeading](uikit/nstextlayoutmanager/usesfontleading.md)
- [limitsLayoutForSuspiciousContents](uikit/nstextlayoutmanager/limitslayoutforsuspiciouscontents.md)