Handling Multiple Sheets in SwiftUI

Solving the issue you may encounter when using multiple Sheets in a SwiftUI View

Alessandro Manilii
3 min readApr 11, 2022
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In many screens, for a user, is quite common to have multiple selections: just tap a button and a second screens is presented. This can be achieved in many ways, one of them is presenting a SwiftUI sheet. If you have worked with this component, you may have stumbled in a very annoying behavior… The item selections doesn't seem to work at the beginning but only after a second tap.

The User Interface

Ok, let’s first build a super easy app to show the problem.

We need a model for our item to present. Let’s fake a money transaction item:

Almost nothing to say here… we just need an Identifiable object to univocally identify it.

The second step is to create a super simple detail view:

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Alessandro Manilii

I’m an Italian professional iOS Developer, iOS Tech Lead at Wakala — Join Medium from the following link: https://medium.com/@alessandromanilii/membership