SwiftUI List selection is not consistent across initializers.

Hello,

I suspect that you are not tagging your RowContent views with the appropriate value (whose type matches the selection properties type), does the following work for you?

struct ContentView: View {
    
    @State private var selection: Item?
    
    @State private var items = [Item(), Item(), Item()]
    
    var body: some View {
        List(items, selection: $selection) { item in
            Text(item.id.uuidString).tag(item)
        }
    }
}

struct Item: Identifiable, Hashable {
    let id = UUID()
}

Hi @rjantz ,

The reason you are seeing this behavior may be caused by your selection variable type.

Say your list is made of a few items of type Item

struct Item: Identifiable, Hashable {
let id = UUID()
let name: String
}

struct ListExample: View {
    @State private var items: [Item] = [Item(name: "Item1"), Item(name: "Item2"]
    @State private var selection: Item.ID?
    
    var body: some View {
        NavigationStack{
            List(items, selection: $selection ){ item in
                        NavigationLink(item.name){
                          DetailView(item.name)
                }
        }

Here, my selection is of type Item.ID, and Item conforms to Identifiable and has an id, so I do not need to specify an ID in the List initializer.

You also can specify this with List(items, id: \.id, selection: $selection) and it will work the exact same. If you would like the id parameter in the List initializer to be of \.self, then try making your selection variable @State private var selection: Item? so that these two variable types match up.

Please try running this. If this does not work for you, please file a bug with http://feedbackassistant.apple.com and post the feedback number here.