Yes, the same happens in the home folder as well. After reading each file path from the database, I am trying to access each file like this: if let percentDecoded = "\(dbPath)\(relativeFilePathFromDb)".removingPercentEncoding, let url = URL(string: percentDecoded), let normalizedUrl = URL(string: url.path, relativeTo: URL(fileURLWithPath: "/"))?.standardizedFileURL { print("\(normalizedUrl)") // this outputs the expected path let success = normalizedUrl.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource() if success { // this is always false // ... } else { print("Unable to access file!") } normalizedUrl.stopAccessingSecurityScopedResource() } Is this maybe the wrong way to construct the path url?

After wasting hours with this weird behavior, I've accepted that this is a perfect speciment of the "you're holding it wrong"-situation. Let me put it this way (thinking about this a few times solved my problem): Whatever you want to render above/below the List (which is why you need the scrollview) can also be put into a separate Segment of the list. It won't look as bad as you might initially think!