Swipe to go back still broken with Zoom navigation transition.

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Created Oct ’25

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When you use .navigationTransition(.zoom(sourceID: "placeholder", in: placehoder)) for navigation animation, going back using the swipe gesture is still very buggy on IOS26. I know it has been mentioned in other places like here: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/796805?answerId=856846022#856846022 but nothing seems to have been done to fix this issue.

Here is a video showing the bug comparing when the back button is used vs swipe to go back: https://imgur.com/a/JgEusRH

I wish there was a way to at least disable the swipe back gesture until this bug is fixed.

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Oct ’25

Thank you for sharing your experience with the navigationTransition. I understand that you are experiencing frustration due to the lack of a work-around or fix. To assist the team in understanding your usage of the control, I kindly request that you include the video you are sharing in your bug report.

Once you open the bug report, please post the FB number here for my reference.

If you have any questions about filing a bug report, take a look at Bug Reporting: How and Why?

Albert Pascual   Worldwide Developer Relations.

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ramicake OP

Dec ’25

@DTS Engineer I hope you and the SwiftUI team are aware of the severity of this issue and the massive scale of apps it is affecting. I sincerely hope you treat this with a sense of urgency since there has been two dot releases for iOS 26 and this very apparent and visual bug still has not been resolved. Thanks!

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DejiApps OP

1w

Its been months since iOS26 has been released and this bug is still present. Very disappointing.

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lionelng OP

1w

Actually if you look at the DestinationVideo sample project (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/visionos/destination-video)

It uses the matchedTransitionSource/navigationTransition zoom APIs. When I tested it building on Xcode 26.2 on an iPhone 15 Pro Max, when swiping back the child view very quickly, the source view will "disappear".

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Weuler OP

4d

@DTS Engineer Just want to bump this issue since it doesn't seem like Apple has understood the severity of it.

This is probably affecting thousands of apps, and has been a problem since the first iOS 26 beta last summer.

This used to work in iOS 18, so it's even a regression.

My feedback from August last year: FB19601591

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