--- title: When async work entered the picture, how did @Binding... description: SwiftUI's @Binding can cause bugs when used with async work. When a child view starts an async task that writes to a binding, navigating away before completion... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/when-async-work-entered-the-picture-how-did-binding-let-you-down--5y9bekghd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: When async work entered the picture, how did @Binding let you down? | daily.dev og:description: SwiftUI's @Binding can cause bugs when used with async work. When a child view starts an async task that writes to a binding, navigating away before completion... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/when-async-work-entered-the-picture-how-did-binding-let-you-down--5y9bekghd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5Y9bEkghd.png og:image:alt: When async work entered the picture, how did @Binding let you down? 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. # When async work entered the picture, how did @Binding let you down? **[Rebeloper](https://daily.dev/sources/rebeloper)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary SwiftUI's @Binding can cause bugs when used with async work. When a child view starts an async task that writes to a binding, navigating away before completion can result in the task writing to stale state, causing unintended updates to other screens. The core issue is that bindings lack awareness of view lifetime and context. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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