--- title: What’s new in SwiftUI for iOS 18 | daily.dev description: SwiftUI for iOS 18 introduces significant improvements, including new APIs for colors and gradients, better scrollview and tab management, and enhanced text... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-swiftui-for-ios-18-qdaepsqls twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What’s new in SwiftUI for iOS 18 | daily.dev og:description: SwiftUI for iOS 18 introduces significant improvements, including new APIs for colors and gradients, better scrollview and tab management, and enhanced text... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-new-in-swiftui-for-ios-18-qdaepsqls og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/QDAePSqLS.png og:image:alt: What’s new in SwiftUI for iOS 18 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. # What’s new in SwiftUI for iOS 18 **[Hacking with Swift](https://daily.dev/sources/hackingwithswift)** · 5 min read · 18 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary SwiftUI for iOS 18 introduces significant improvements, including new APIs for colors and gradients, better scrollview and tab management, and enhanced text rendering control. A major change shifts the @MainActor attribute to the whole View protocol, simplifying main actor isolation issues. However, some usability gaps remain, such as the lack of WebKit integration, challenging keychain management, limited remote image control, and missing rich text support in TextEditor. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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