How to mark content as a placeholder using redacted()
Updated for Xcode 12.0
New in iOS 14
SwiftUI lets us mark text as a placeholder in our view, meaning that it gets rendered but masked out with gray to show it isn’t final content. This is provided through the redacted(reason:) modifier, which replaces the isPlaceholder() modifier they demonstrated at WWDC20.
Here’s how it looks in code:
Text("This is placeholder text")
.redacted(reason: .placeholder)You can redact several things in your view at once, just by using redacted(reason:) on a container, like this:
VStack {
Text("This is placeholder text")
Text("And so is this")
}
.redacted(reason: .placeholder)Apple has said that redaction is an additive process, meaning that if you add redaction reasons to both a parent and a child then they will combine. Right now there’s only .placeholder, but perhaps we’ll see pixellation or similar in the future?
You can also query any redaction reasons passed in from the environment like this:
@Environment(\.redactionReasons) var redactionReasonsAt this time you can’t redact images, which is a shame – hopefully this will appear in a future beta.
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