Can I use a sprite's pivot in a UI Image component

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I’ve got a sprite sheet where all of the sprites are aligned with the bottom of the frame. When I sliced my sprite sheet, I set the pivot’s Y to 0.4 to account for this. When I draw sprites animations in the game, that works correctly and the sprites are aligned how I want them to be. However, when I add one of those sprites to an Image UI component, the pivot gets ignored and the sprite is aligned with the bottom of the Image’s position. Is there a way to make the Image component use the sprite’s pivot point?

Moving the Image component up or down won’t work as a solution because the Image component will sometimes display sprites with a pivot of (0.5, 0.5) and will sometimes display sprites with a custom pivot.

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Using this for my game.

Extension Method:

public static void CenterSpriteOnPivotY(this Image img)
        {
            float offsetY = img.rectTransform.rect.height * Mathf.Abs((img.sprite.pivot.y / img.sprite.rect.height) - .5f);

            img.rectTransform.offsetMin = new Vector2(img.rectTransform.offsetMin.x, -offsetY);
            img.rectTransform.offsetMax = new Vector2(img.rectTransform.offsetMax.x, -offsetY);
        }
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Do you then create a script, that triggers this Method on a specific Image component? or is there a easier way?