Currently, no, it doesn't look like it is possible to center a view in the superview using only VFL. It is, however, not that difficult to do it using a single VFL string and a single extra constraint (per axis): VFL: "|-(>=20)-[view]-(>=20)-|" [NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem:view attribute:NSLayoutAttributeCenterX relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual toItem:view.superview attribute:NSLayoutAttr
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