In SwiftUI, iOS15, 2nd level NavigationLink, isActive is not working - swiftui

Question

in iOS15, it is not working:
import SwiftUI
struct ContentView: View {
var body: some View {
NavigationView {
NavigationLink {
Dest1().navigationTitle("Dest1")
} label: {
Text("to Destination 1")
}
}
}
}
struct Dest1: View {
#State var dest2Active: Bool = false
var body: some View {
NavigationLink(
destination: Button {
dest2Active = false // not working!!
} label: {Text("dismiss")} .navigationTitle("Dest2"),
isActive: $dest2Active
) {Text("to Destination 2")}
}
}
The dismiss button in Dest2 is not working!
I remember that in iOS14, this code works well.
How to resolve this?

Answer 1

Adding .isDetailLink(false) to the top level NavigationLink seems to solve the issue. Note that this works on iPhone iOS -- for iPad, you will need to use a StackNavigationStyle as #workingdog suggests in their answer.
The documentation is not clear on why this works (in fact, it refers specifically to multi-column navigation), but it seems to solve a number of NavigationLink-related issues. See, for example: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/667460
struct ContentView: View {
var body: some View {
NavigationView {
NavigationLink {
Dest1()
.navigationTitle("Dest1")
} label: {
Text("to Destination 1")
}.isDetailLink(false)
}
}
}
struct Dest1: View {
#State var dest2Active: Bool = false
var body: some View {
NavigationLink(isActive: $dest2Active) {
Dest2(dest2Active: $dest2Active)
} label: {
Text("to Destination 2")
}
}
}
struct Dest2: View {
#Binding var dest2Active : Bool
var body: some View {
Button {
dest2Active = false
} label: {
Text("Dismiss")
}.navigationTitle("Dest2")
}
}

Answer 2

You need to add .navigationViewStyle(.stack) to make it work.
Here is the test code that works for me.
import SwiftUI
#main
struct TestApp: App {
var body: some Scene {
WindowGroup {
ContentView()
}
}
}
struct ContentView: View {
var body: some View {
NavigationView {
NavigationLink {
Dest1().navigationTitle("Dest1")
} label: {
Text("to Destination 1")
}
}.navigationViewStyle(.stack) // <-- here the important bit
}
}
struct Dest1: View {
#State var dest2Active: Bool = false
var body: some View {
NavigationLink(
destination: Button {
dest2Active = false // now working!!
} label: {Text("dismiss")} .navigationTitle("Dest2"),
isActive: $dest2Active
) {Text("to Destination 2")}
}
}