UIStackView Hide View Animation

Just had the same issue. The fix is adding stackView.layoutIfNeeded() inside the animation block. Where stackView is the container of the items you're wishing to hide.

UIView.animate(withDuration: DiscoverHeaderView.animationDuration,
                   delay: 0.0,
                   usingSpringWithDamping: 0.9,
                   initialSpringVelocity: 1,
                   options: [],
                   animations: {
                        clear.isHidden = hideClear
                        useMyLocation.isHidden = hideLocation
                        stackView.layoutIfNeeded()
                    },
                   completion: nil)

Not sure why this is suddenly an issue in iOS 11 but to be fair it has always been the recommended approach.

It's already mentioned in the comments of the accepted answer, but this was my problem and it's not in any of the answer here so:

Make sure to never set isHidden = true on a view that is already hidden. This will mess up the stack view.

Swift 4 Extension:

// MARK: - Show hide animations in StackViews

extension UIView {

func hideAnimated(in stackView: UIStackView) {
    if !self.isHidden {
        UIView.animate(
            withDuration: 0.35,
            delay: 0,
            usingSpringWithDamping: 0.9,
            initialSpringVelocity: 1,
            options: [],
            animations: {
                self.isHidden = true
                stackView.layoutIfNeeded()
            },
            completion: nil
        )
    }
}

func showAnimated(in stackView: UIStackView) {
    if self.isHidden {
        UIView.animate(
            withDuration: 0.35,
            delay: 0,
            usingSpringWithDamping: 0.9,
            initialSpringVelocity: 1,
            options: [],
            animations: {
                self.isHidden = false
                stackView.layoutIfNeeded()
            },
            completion: nil
        )
    }
}
}

I want to share this function that is good for hiding and showing many views in UIStackView, because with all the code I used before didn't work smooth because one needs to removeAnimation from some layers:

extension UIStackView {
    public func make(viewsHidden: [UIView], viewsVisible: [UIView], animated: Bool) {
        let viewsHidden = viewsHidden.filter({ $0.superview === self })
        let viewsVisible = viewsVisible.filter({ $0.superview === self })

        let blockToSetVisibility: ([UIView], _ hidden: Bool) -> Void = { views, hidden in
            views.forEach({ $0.isHidden = hidden })
        }

        // need for smooth animation
        let blockToSetAlphaForSubviewsOf: ([UIView], _ alpha: CGFloat) -> Void = { views, alpha in
            views.forEach({ view in
                view.subviews.forEach({ $0.alpha = alpha })
            })
        }

        if !animated {
            blockToSetVisibility(viewsHidden, true)
            blockToSetVisibility(viewsVisible, false)
            blockToSetAlphaForSubviewsOf(viewsHidden, 1)
            blockToSetAlphaForSubviewsOf(viewsVisible, 1)
        } else {
            // update hidden values of all views
            // without that animation doesn't go
            let allViews = viewsHidden + viewsVisible
            self.layer.removeAllAnimations()
            allViews.forEach { view in
                let oldHiddenValue = view.isHidden
                view.layer.removeAllAnimations()
                view.layer.isHidden = oldHiddenValue
            }

            UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.3,
                           delay: 0.0,
                           usingSpringWithDamping: 0.9,
                           initialSpringVelocity: 1,
                           options: [],
                           animations: {

                            blockToSetAlphaForSubviewsOf(viewsVisible, 1)
                            blockToSetAlphaForSubviewsOf(viewsHidden, 0)

                            blockToSetVisibility(viewsHidden, true)
                            blockToSetVisibility(viewsVisible, false)
                            self.layoutIfNeeded()
            },
                           completion: nil)
        }
    }
}

Hope this saves others a few hours of frustration.

Animating hiding AND showing multiple UIStackView subviews at the same time is a mess.

In some cases a change to .isHidden in animation blocks displays correctly only until the next animation, then .isHidden is ignored. The only reliable trick I found for this is to repeat the .isHidden instructions in the completion block of the animation.

    let time = 0.3

    UIView.animate(withDuration: time, animations: {

        //shows
        self.googleSignInView.isHidden = false
        self.googleSignInView.alpha = 1
        self.registerView.isHidden = false
        self.registerView.alpha = 1

        //hides
        self.usernameView.isHidden = true
        self.usernameView.alpha = 0
        self.passwordView.isHidden = true
        self.passwordView.alpha = 0

        self.stackView.layoutIfNeeded()

    }) { (finished) in

        self.googleSignInView.isHidden = false
        self.registerView.isHidden = false
        self.usernameView.isHidden = true
        self.passwordView.isHidden = true
    }

According to jimpic's answer, I wrote a simple function and solved the problem I had in showing and hiding views in stackView with animation.

func hide(_ vu: UIView) {
    if vu.isHidden == true {
        return
    } else {
        vu.isHidden = true
    }
}

func show(_ vu: UIView) {
    if vu.isHidden == true {
        vu.isHidden = false
    } else {
        return
    }
}

Use the above function:

UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.3, delay: 0, options: [.curveEaseOut], animations: {
    self.hide(self.nameTextField)
})