--- title: ScrollView snapping in SwiftUI | daily.dev description: SwiftUI's ScrollView uses velocity-based deceleration by default, which can leave content partially visible. The scrollTargetBehavior(_:) modifier enables two... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/scrollview-snapping-in-swiftui-jnzblgomh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: ScrollView snapping in SwiftUI | daily.dev og:description: SwiftUI's ScrollView uses velocity-based deceleration by default, which can leave content partially visible. The scrollTargetBehavior(_:) modifier enables two... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/scrollview-snapping-in-swiftui-jnzblgomh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jnzBLGomh.png og:image:alt: ScrollView snapping in SwiftUI 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. # ScrollView snapping in SwiftUI **[Nil Coalescing](https://daily.dev/sources/nilcoalescing)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary SwiftUI's ScrollView uses velocity-based deceleration by default, which can leave content partially visible. The scrollTargetBehavior(_:) modifier enables two snapping modes: paging (snaps to the container's visible region) and viewAligned (snaps to individual views). Paging requires zero spacing on LazyHStack and may need ignoresSafeArea for horizontal layouts. viewAligned requires marking the layout container with scrollTargetLayout() and handles safe area insets better. A key gotcha: oversized items wider than the visible region break viewAligned snapping, requiring a custom ScrollTargetBehavior for those cases. These APIs are available since iOS 17. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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