SwiftUI NavigationView Starting Inside Itself

Question

So I've got a NavigationView embedded inside of a TabView that is in the Page View Style. Upon first load the NavigationView will start inside itself, and then once reloaded it shows normally. I am unsure as to what is causing this. And I've made a GIF to better illustrate the problem:

And here is my code:

import SwiftUI

struct ContentView: View {
    
    var body: some View {
        TabView {
            SettingsView()
            EmptyView()
            EmptyView()
            EmptyView()
        }
        .tabViewStyle(PageTabViewStyle(indexDisplayMode: .never))
    }
}

struct SettingsView: View {
    
    var body: some View {
        NavigationView {
            List {
                Section(header: Text("General")) {
                    NavigationLink(destination: SettingsItem(title: "1")) {
                        Text("1")
                    }
                    
                    NavigationLink(destination: SettingsItem(title: "2")) {
                        Text("2")
                    }
                    
                    NavigationLink(destination: SettingsItem(title: "3")) {
                        Text("3")
                    }
                    
                    NavigationLink(destination: SettingsItem(title: "4")) {
                        Text("4")
                    }
                    
                }
            }
            .listStyle(InsetGroupedListStyle())
            .navigationTitle("Settings")
        }
    }
}

struct SettingsItem: View {
    
    @State var title = "Title"
    
    var body: some View {
        NavigationView {
            List {
                
            }
        }
        .navigationTitle(title)
    }
}

struct EmptyView: View {
    var body: some View {
        ZStack{
            Color.green
            Text("Empty View")
                .padding()
        }
        .border(Color.black, width: 8)
        
    }
}

user_7129318 · Answer

Believe it or not, this has nothing to do with the TabView(). This is actually an issue in the SettingsView(). SwiftUI is defaulting to a split view. As a result, you are getting an empty view because you haven't actually navigated to any particular view, with the Settings back button showing. The fix to make this behave as you would expect is to add a .navigationViewStyle(StackNavigationViewStyle() on the NavigationView in SettingsView which forces SettingsView to display as a single view like this:

struct ContentView: View {
    
    var body: some View {
        TabView {
            SettingsView()
            BlankView(color: .green)
            BlankView(color: .blue)
            BlankView(color: .red)
        }
        .tabViewStyle(PageTabViewStyle(indexDisplayMode: .never))
        
    }
}

struct SettingsView: View {
    
    var body: some View {
        NavigationView {
            List {
                Section(header: Text("General")) {
                    NavigationLink(destination: SettingsItem(title: "1")) {
                        Text("1")
                    }
                    
                    NavigationLink(destination: SettingsItem(title: "2")) {
                        Text("2")
                    }
                    
                    NavigationLink(destination: SettingsItem(title: "3")) {
                        Text("3")
                    }
                    
                    NavigationLink(destination: SettingsItem(title: "4")) {
                        Text("4")
                    }
                    
                }
            }
            .listStyle(InsetGroupedListStyle())
            .navigationTitle("Settings")
        }
        .navigationViewStyle(StackNavigationViewStyle())
    }
}

struct SettingsItem: View {
    
    @State var title = "Title"
    
    var body: some View {
        NavigationView {
            List {
                
            }
        }
        .navigationTitle(title)
    }
}

struct BlankView: View {
    let color: Color
    
    var body: some View {
        ZStack{
            color
            Text("Blank View")
                .padding()
        }
        .border(Color.black, width: 8)
        
    }
}

Also, I edited your code a bit for clarity. EmptyView() is already designated by the system, so I changed it to BlankView() I am not sure why the compiler doesn't have a problem with you naming a struct EmptyView(), but you really shouldn't use that name. I also had the BlankView() show different colors so it was clear you were navigating to separate views.

SwiftUI NavigationView Starting Inside Itself

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