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

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Two flowers that represent SwiftUI and XCode side by side with the text "Context Menu" beneath them.

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

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

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