How to create a date picker and read values from it

SwiftUI’s DatePicker view is analogous to UIDatePicker, and comes with a variety options for controlling how it looks and works. Like all controls that store values, it does need to be bound to some sort of state in your app.

For example, this creates a date picker bound to a birthDate property, then displays the value of the date picker as it’s set:

struct ContentView : View {
    var dateFormatter: DateFormatter {
        let formatter = DateFormatter()
        formatter.dateStyle = .long
        return formatter
    }

    @State var birthDate = Date()

    var body: some View {
        VStack {
            DatePicker(
                $birthDate,
                maximumDate: Date(),
                displayedComponents: .date
            )

            Text("Date is \(birthDate, formatter: dateFormatter)")
        }
    }
}

You can see I’ve set displayedComponents to .date, but you could also use .hourAndMinute to get time data instead.

I also used maximumDate to stop people specifying a birth date in the future, but you can specify minimumDate to stop people specifying a date earlier than a point of your choosing.