How to add a menu that appears on right click in a SwiftUI MacOS app

Within a SwiftUI view, use the .contextMenu(menuItems: {}) functionality and add buttons. To feature commands, add .keyboardShortcut modifiers to the buttons.

Oscar de la Hera Gomez
Written by Oscar de la Hera Gomez
First published on 10/23/2024 at 09:42
Last Updated on 10/23/2024 at 11:09
<p>Two flowers that represent SwiftUI and XCode side by side with the text "Context Menu" beneath them.</p>

Within a SwiftUI view, use the .contextMenu(menuItems: {}) functionality and add buttons. To feature commands, add .keyboardShortcut modifiers to the buttons.

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<p>A screenshot of Object Capture Pro's app that shows how to add context menus to views in SwiftUI.</p>

To make a context menu appear within a MacOS app built in SwiftUI, use code similar to the one below.

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