I'm trying to use SwiftData for a new app after ~20 years of Core Data (and EOF before that). So while I'm new to SwiftData, I'm not new to Apple persistence frameworks. I've got a pretty typical workflow - need to load some JSON from the network, convert that into model objects. I've created an actor using the @ModelActor macro and I'm using that to do the network fetch and insert. I can set breakpoints in this code and see that it does indeed run and it's running on a non-main queue. That all seems fine. The problem is that my @Query powered variable in my SwiftUI user interface does not get updated when this data is loaded and saved as I would expect it to. I'm passing in the container to the actor using modelContext.container from the same modelContext that is powering the view / in the environment. My understanding was that like Core Data before it, the SwiftData framework was listening for the relevant notifications passed by the container/context, processing those and updating the UI but I can only see my data if I quit and relaunch the app. This seems like it should be a very common use case but I've not found much online. Not sure if that means I'm just doing something fundamentally wrong or what. Tested on both iOS 18 and 17 with the same results. Anyone else doing this successfully? What could I be doing wrong?

I have an app with fairly typical requirements - I need to insert some data (in my case from the network but could be anything) and I want to do it in the background to keep the UI responsive. I'm using SwiftData. I've created a ModelActor that does the importing and using the debugger I can confirm that the data is indeed being inserted. On the UI side, I'm using @Query and a SwiftUI List to display the data but what I am seeing is that @Query is not updating as the data is being inserted. I have to quit and re-launch the app in order for the data to appear, almost like the context running the UI isn't communicating with the context in the ModelActor. I've included a barebones sample project. To reproduce the issue, tap the 'Background Insert' button. You'll see logs that show items being inserted but the UI is not showing any data. I've tested on the just released iOS 18b3 seed (22A5307f). The sample project is here: https://hanchor.s3.amazonaws.com/misc/SwiftDataBackgroundV2.zip