How to create a momentary segmented control in SwiftUI for macOS?

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Created Apr ’25

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In AppKit, NSSegmentedControl has various styles defined by NSSegmentStyle and various tracking modes defined by NSSegmentSwitchTracking.

How can we set these properties in SwiftUI?

I'm currently using a Picker with the view modifier .pickerStyle(.segmented) applied but this seems to produce a segmented control with tracking set to "select one".

In particular I'm looking for momentary tracking so that I can create navigation-style buttons for backward/forward navigation.

Under AppKit, the canonical way to do this is an NSSegmentedControl of style separated and tracking momentary.

Is that possible under SwiftUI for macOS? (Using the latest versions of everything.)

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Apr ’25

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@kennyc In SwiftUI you could accomplish this using a ControlGroup .

For example:

ControlGroup {
    Button("A") { }
    Button("B") { }
} label: {
    Label("Plus", systemImage: "plus")
}

The tracking behavior is implied by the kinds of controls you define in the group.

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