Change The Background of a List With BackgroundContent

Daily Coding Tip 129

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Here’s a way to change the background colour of a List at runtime, using a new modifier that will become available in iOS 16. Changing this background is otherwise extremely difficult, as it is basically a UITableView in a UIViewRepresentable wrapper.

ScrollContentBackground.swift

I actually wrote in Daily Coding Tip 067 in April that there was a solution for iOS 15, but it involved modifying the UITableView.