Hi, does anybody know how to make the.searchable textfield have focus? It's a search view, so it makes sense to automatically make it have focus when it loads, but .focusState doesn't seem to work with it? Any ideas would be appreciated!

struct CustomerSearchView: View {
    @Binding var customer: Customer?

    @State private var searchName = ""
    @Environment(\.presentationMode) var presentationMode
    @EnvironmentObject var customerSearchViewModel: CustomerSearchViewModel
    @FocusState private var searchFocused: Bool

    var body: some View {
        NavigationStack {
            List {
                if customerSearchViewModel.shouldShowNoResults {
                    Text("🤔 No Results")
                } else if customerSearchViewModel.shouldShowProgressView {
                    ProgressView()
                }

                ForEach(customerSearchViewModel.customers) { searchResult in
                    SearchResultItemView(searchResult: searchResult)
                        .onTapGesture {
                            self.customer = searchResult
                            presentationMode.wrappedValue.dismiss()
                        }
                }
            }
            .searchable(text: $customerSearchViewModel.searchText, prompt: "Search by name, email or postcode")
            .focused($searchFocused)
            .autocorrectionDisabled(true)
            .keyboardType(.alphabet)                // stop keyboard suggestions
            .textContentType(.init(rawValue: ""))   // stop keyboard suggestions
            .onAppear {
                DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 0.75) {
                    searchFocused = true
                }
            }
            .onDisappear {
                customerSearchViewModel.searchText = ""
                customerSearchViewModel.customers.removeAll()
            }
        }
        .alert(isPresented: $customerSearchViewModel.hasError, error: customerSearchViewModel.error) { }
    }
}

I'm assuming that I'm missing some nuance since I'm still pretty new to this, but I came accross your question when I had the same challenge. I found an answer in Apple's docs that is working well for me:

struct SheetView: View {
    @State private var isPresented = true
    @State private var text = ""

    var body: some View {
        NavigationStack {
            SheetContent()
                .searchable(text: $text, isPresented: $isPresented)
        }
    }
}  

I realize it is way to late to solve your problem but perhaps anyone else coming across this might benefit.