Where can I make changes to view's bounds in IOS 6 - ios6

Before IOS 6 the right place to do that would be viewWillAppear:, because everything was already loaded and set from interface builder, but now, the frame still changes after viewWillAppear:.
The only other place that I can think to put this kind of code would be in viewDidAppear:, but if I do that, the user will see the screen suddenly changing just after the view appears.
So what can I do?
Thank you.
Btw, frame also changes after viewDidLayoutSubviews:, so it doesn't work either.

Your theory on where to do layout changes is not incorrect and most likely does not change under iOS6. What does change is that if you are using autolayout, you nolonger make changes to frame or bounds, autolayout does that for you. You now make changes to the constraints. When you change the constraints then things like frame are automatically done for you.

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But when the same glitch occurs to a multi-line TextField, each time the cursor is moved to a different line the keyboard follows the current line and hides everything underneath. I've been looking at TextArea and Component but I can't see anything there that stops this behavior. My "trick" of making the TextField a layer with bottom padding doesn't work in multi-line mode. I'm out of options, could this be enabled or alternatively is there some magic method somewhere I am missing?
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