WWDC23 SALE: Save 50% on all my Swift books and bundles! >>

How to group views together with ControlGroup

Paul Hudson    @twostraws   

Updated for Xcode 14.2

New in iOS 15

SwiftUI’s ControlGroup View lets us tell the system that two or more views should be grouped together because they are related. What it does with that information is down to the context where they are used and the platform your code is running on.

For example, on iOS and macOS, this will display three buttons attached horizontally, in a style sometimes called “momentary segmented”:

ControlGroup {
    Button("First") { }
    Button("Second") { }
    Button("Third") { }
}
.padding()

Download this as an Xcode project

When you run that code you’ll see the buttons are clearly attached to each other visually, but still operate individually.

ControlGroup is particularly useful when creating customizable toolbars, where buttons in a control group must be added or removed together rather than split up.

Save 50% in my WWDC23 sale.

SAVE 50% To celebrate WWDC23, all our books and bundles are half price, so you can take your Swift knowledge further without spending big! Get the Swift Power Pack to build your iOS career faster, get the Swift Platform Pack to builds apps for macOS, watchOS, and beyond, or get the Swift Plus Pack to learn advanced design patterns, testing skills, and more.

Save 50% on all our books and bundles!

Similar solutions…

BUY OUR BOOKS
Buy Pro Swift Buy Pro SwiftUI Buy Swift Design Patterns Buy Testing Swift Buy Hacking with iOS Buy Swift Coding Challenges Buy Swift on Sundays Volume One Buy Server-Side Swift Buy Advanced iOS Volume One Buy Advanced iOS Volume Two Buy Advanced iOS Volume Three Buy Hacking with watchOS Buy Hacking with tvOS Buy Hacking with macOS Buy Dive Into SpriteKit Buy Swift in Sixty Seconds Buy Objective-C for Swift Developers Buy Beyond Code

Was this page useful? Let us know!

Average rating: 5.0/5

 
Unknown user

You are not logged in

Log in or create account
 

Link copied to your pasteboard.