Hi, I hope you are doing well. We have been running up against an issue in our application which despite our best efforts we cannot seem to solve. After a certain point of use (of which we cannot seem to isolate a trigger), something internally with the way SwiftUI handles animation transactions seems to be breaking. This results in the following behavior that we (and our users) are noticing:
Alerts/Sheets/NavigationPath changes lose all animations
Closures associated with buttons no longer fire at all. The alert disappears, but with no animation and any action associated with the button selected does nothing. This results in an infinite loop of triggering an alert, clicking on an alert action, and the alert dismissing without the corresponding action ever occurring.
We have tried moving the navigationPath out of a view model (Observable) and into a @State variable on the view in case it was an issue with view pre-rendering due to path changes, but this did not improve our case. We hoisted the state and the alert presentation out of all subviews and onto the root view of our navigation destination (as this happens on a sub-page of the application) as well, and while did this seem to minimize occurrences it did not fully resolve it.
The app structure of our watch app is as follows:
We have a NavigationStack at the root level which wraps a TabView, containing 3 pages. Selecting a button triggers a navigation destination, presenting a detail view. The detail view is a ZStack which switches on a property contained in an @State Observable view model scoped to the detail view. The ZStack can contain one of 5 subviews, derived from a viewState enum with associated values (all of which are equatable, and by extension viewState is also an equatable type as well). One of the subviews receives a binding, which on button trigger updates the binding and thus the view containing the ZStack presents the alert. Sometimes, when this happens, the animations break, and then are subsequently broken for the remainder of the lifetime of the app until it is force-closed (not backgrounded, but a full force-close).
NavigationStack {
TabView {
Tab1
Tab2 // triggers navigationDestination
Tab3
}
.navigationDestination(for:) {
DestinationView() // the view containing the ZStack + Alert
}
}
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
Unfortunately we have not been able to ascertain exactly what is causing this issue as we cannot reproduce it in a sandbox environment, only when moving through the view flow associated with our code.
Any debugging ideas or recommendations would be greatly appreciated, as we have already tried _printChanges and do not notice any erroneous view redraws.