--- title: In one project, GeometryReader caused spacing to slowly... description: A SwiftUI project experienced gradual UI spacing issues over weeks due to accumulating geometry-derived values in state. Each GeometryReader recomputation... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/in-one-project-geometryreader-caused-spacing-to-slowly-creep-over-weeks-how-did-that-even-happen--eo7bcvk9i twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: In one project, GeometryReader caused spacing to slowly creep over weeks. How did that even happen? | daily.dev og:description: A SwiftUI project experienced gradual UI spacing issues over weeks due to accumulating geometry-derived values in state. Each GeometryReader recomputation... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/in-one-project-geometryreader-caused-spacing-to-slowly-creep-over-weeks-how-did-that-even-happen--eo7bcvk9i og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/EO7bcVk9I.png og:image:alt: In one project, GeometryReader caused spacing to slowly creep over weeks. How did that even happen? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # In one project, GeometryReader caused spacing to slowly creep over weeks. How did that even happen? **[Rebeloper](https://daily.dev/sources/rebeloper)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A SwiftUI project experienced gradual UI spacing issues over weeks due to accumulating geometry-derived values in state. Each GeometryReader recomputation added small incremental data that compounded over time. The solution was treating geometry as read-only input and avoiding long-term storage of derived spacing values, which immediately stopped the creep. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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