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How to hide the scroll indicators in ScrollView, List, and more

Paul Hudson    @twostraws   

Updated for Xcode 14.2

New in iOS 16

SwiftUI’s scrollIndicators() modifier allows us to determine whether to show the scroll indicators or not – those are the little flashing bars that both give the user a sense of the size of our content, but also allows for a long press scroll.

Use it like this:

struct ContentView: View {
    var body: some View {
        List(1..<100) { i in
            Text("Row \(i)")
        }
        .scrollIndicators(.hidden)
    }
}

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There are four options available to us, and there are subtle distinctions:

  1. The default is .automatic, which is what you’d get without the modifier in place - SwiftUI will do whatever it thinks is best.
  2. Specify .visible to get auto-hiding indicators on iOS, or to respect whatever is the user’s preference on macOS.
  3. Use .hidden to hide the indicators on iOS, and mostly hide them on macOS too – if the user connects a mouse, the scroll indicators will return.
  4. Use .never to hide the indicators on iOS and also on macOS, regardless of what pointing device user has.
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