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title: "This Hidden SwiftUI Feature Will Save You Time"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/this-hidden-swiftui-feature-will-save-you-time-jsipv3bg4
source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKA4kt43lKw
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source: "Rebeloper"
published: 2026-06-14T12:34:03.418Z
updated: 2026-06-14T12:34:20.515Z
tags: ["swiftui"]
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# This Hidden SwiftUI Feature Will Save You Time

**[Rebeloper](https://daily.dev/sources/rebeloper)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

SwiftUI's @Entry macro (available in iOS 17+) simplifies custom environment values by eliminating the need to manually define an EnvironmentKey. Instead of creating a separate key type and conforming to EnvironmentKey, you can extend EnvironmentValues directly using @Entry to declare your custom property in a single, concise step. The tutorial demonstrates this by refactoring a feature-flag-based environment setup from the verbose EnvironmentKey approach to the cleaner @Entry macro syntax.

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