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I am trying to add a drop shadow to views that are layered on top of one another, the views collapse allowing content in other views to be seen, in this vein i want to keep view.clipsToBounds ON so that when the views collapse their content is clipped. This seems to have made it difficult for me to add a drop shadow to the layers as when i turn clipsToBounds ON the shadows are clipped also. I have been trying to manipulate view.frame and view.bounds in order to add a drop shadow to the frame but allow the bounds to be large enough to encompass it, however I have had no luck with this. Here is the code I am using to add a Shadow (this only works with clipsToBounds OFF as shown) view.clipsToBounds = NO; view.layer.shadowColor = [[UIColor blackColor] CGColor]; view.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0,5); view.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.5; Here is a screenshot of the shadow being applied to the top lightest grey layer. Hopefully this gives an idea of how my content will overlap if clipsToBounds is OFF. How can I add a shadow to my UIView and keep my content clipped? Edit: Just wanted to add that I have also played around with using background images with shadows on, which does work well, however I would still like to know the best coded solution for this.

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