- August 28, 2025
- Mins Read
Floaters | Toasts | Popups | Sheets |
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You can show multiple popups on top of anything, and they can also let the taps pass through to lower views. There are 3 ways to display a popup: as a simple overlay, using SwiftUI’s fullscreenSheet, and using UIKit’s UIWindow. There are pros and cons for all of these, here is a table.
Overlay | Sheet | Window | |
---|---|---|---|
Show on top of navbar | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
Show on top of sheet | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
Show multiple popups | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
Taps “pass through” the transparent bg | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
SwiftUI @State update mechanism works as expected | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
Basically UIWindow based popup is the best option for most situations, just remember – to get adequate UI updates, use ObservableObjects or @Bindings instead of @State. This won’t work:
struct ContentView : View {
@State var showPopup = false
@State var a = false
var body: some View {
Button(“Button”) {
showPopup.toggle()
}
.popup(isPresented: $showPopup) {
VStack {
Button(“Switch a”) {
a.toggle()
}
a ? Text(“on”).foregroundStyle(.green) : Text(“off”).foregroundStyle(.red)
}
} customize: {
$0
.type(.floater())
.closeOnTap(false)
.position(.top)
}
}
}
This will work:
struct ContentView : View {
@State var showPopup = false
@State var a = false
var body: some View {
Button(“Button”) {
showPopup.toggle()
}
.popup(isPresented: $showPopup) {
PopupContent(a: $a)
} customize: {
$0
.type(.floater())
.closeOnTap(false)
.position(.top)
}
}
}
struct PopupContent: View {
@Binding var a: Bool
var body: some View {
VStack {
Button(“Switch a”) {
a.toggle()
}
a ? Text(“on”).foregroundStyle(.green) : Text(“off”).foregroundStyle(.red)
}
}
}
DisplayMode
enum was introduced instead of isOpaque
. isOpaque
is now deprecated. Instead of:
.popup(isPresented: $toasts.showingTopSecond) {
ToastTopSecond()
} customize: {
$0
.type(.toast)
.isOpaque(true) // <– here
}
use:
.popup(isPresented: $floats.showingTopFirst) {
FloatTopFirst()
} customize: {
$0
.type(.floater())
.displayMode(.sheet) // <– here
}
So, new .displayMode(.sheet)
corresponds to old .isOpaque(true)
, .displayMode(.overlay)
corresponds to .isOpaque(false)
. Default DisplayMode
is .window
.
disappearTo
parameter to specify disappearing animation direction – can be different from appearFrom
To include new .zoom type, AppearFrom
enum cases were renamed. Instead of:
.popup(isPresented: $floats.showingTopFirst) {
FloatTopFirst()
} customize: {
$0
.type(.floater())
.appearFrom(.top) // <– here
}
use:
.popup(isPresented: $floats.showingTopFirst) {
FloatTopFirst()
} customize: {
$0
.type(.floater())
.appearFrom(.topSlide) // <– here
}
Instead of:
.popup(isPresented: $floats.showingTopFirst, type: .floater(), position: .top, animation: .spring(), closeOnTapOutside: true, backgroundColor: .black.opacity(0.5)) {
FloatTopFirst()
}
use:
.popup(isPresented: $floats.showingTopFirst) {
FloatTopFirst()
} customize: {
$0
.type(.floater())
.position(.top)
.animation(.spring())
.closeOnTapOutside(true)
.backgroundColor(.black.opacity(0.5))
}
Using this API you can pass parameters in any order you like.
.popup
modifier to your view.
import PopupView
struct ContentView: View {
@State var showingPopup = false
var body: some View {
YourView()
.popup(isPresented: $showingPopup) {
Text(“The popup”)
.frame(width: 200, height: 60)
.background(Color(red: 0.85, green: 0.8, blue: 0.95))
.cornerRadius(30.0)
} customize: {
$0.autohideIn(2)
}
}
}
isPresented
– binding to determine if the popup should be seen on screen or hidden
view
– view you want to display on your popup
item
– binding to item: if item’s value is nil – popup is hidden, if non-nil – displayed. Be careful – library makes a copy of your item during dismiss animation!!
view
– view you want to display on your popup
use customize
closure in popup modifier:
type
:
default
– usual popup in the center of screenfloater parameters:
verticalPadding
– padding which will define padding from the relative vertical edge or will be added to safe area if useSafeAreaInset
is truehorizontalPadding
– padding which will define padding from the relative horizontal edge or will be added to safe area if useSafeAreaInset
is trueuseSafeAreaInset
– whether to include safe area insets in floater paddingscroll parameters:
headerView
– a view on top which won’t be a part of the scroll (if you need one)
position
– topLeading, top, topTrailing, leading, center, trailing, bottomLeading, bottom, bottomTrailing appearFrom
– topSlide, bottomSlide, leftSlide, rightSlide, centerScale, none
: determines the direction of appearing animation. If left empty it copies position
parameter: so appears from .top edge, if position
is set to .top. .none
means no animation disappearTo
– same as appearFrom
, but for disappearing animation. If left empty it copies appearFrom
. animation
– custom animation for popup sliding onto screen
autohideIn
– time after which popup should disappear
dismissibleIn(Double?, Binding<Bool>?)
– only allow dismiss after this time passes (forbids closeOnTap, closeOnTapOutside, and drag). Pass a boolean binding if you’d like to track current status
dragToDismiss
– true by default: enable/disable drag to dismiss (upwards for .top popup types, downwards for .bottom and default type)
closeOnTap
– true by default: enable/disable closing on tap on popup
closeOnTapOutside
– false by default: enable/disable closing on tap on outside of popup
allowTapThroughBG
– Should allow taps to pass “through” the popup’s background down to views “below” it.
.sheet
popup is always allowTapThroughBG = false
backgroundColor
– Color.clear by default: change background color of outside area
backgroundView
– custom background builder for outside area (if this one is set backgroundColor
is ignored)
isOpaque
– false by default: if true taps do not pass through popup’s background and the popup is displayed on top of navbar. For more see section “Show over navbar”
useKeyboardSafeArea
– false by default: if true popup goes up for keyboardHeight when keyboard is displayed dismissCallback
– custom callback to call once the popup is dismissed
To implement a sheet (like in 4th gif) enable dragToDismiss
on bottom toast (see example project for implementation of the card itself)
.popup(isPresented: $show) {
// your content
} customize: {
$0
.type (.toast)
.position(.bottom)
.dragToDismiss(true)
}
To try the PopupView examples:
https://github.com/exyte/PopupView.git
PopupExample.xcodeproj
in the Xcode
dependencies: [
.package(url: “https://github.com/exyte/PopupView.git”)
]
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