How to change the background color for a Form in SwiftUI?

iOS 16

You can hide the default background to show the underling view by appealing the following modifier to the Form:

.scrollContentBackground(.hidden)

iOS 13 and 15

All SwiftUI’s Lists are backed by a UITableViewin iOS. so you need to change the background color of the tableView. But since Color and UIColor values are slightly different, you can get rid of the UIColor.

struct ContentView: View {
    
    init(){
        UITableView.appearance().backgroundColor = .clear
    }
    
    @State var value = ""
    
    var body: some View {
        Form {
            Section(header: Text("First Name")) {
                TextField("First Name", text: $value)
            }
            Section(header: Text("Last Name")) {
                TextField("Last Name", text: $value)
            }
        }
      /*.scrollContentBackground(.hidden)*/ // 👈 this line will work only on iOS 16 and above 
        .foregroundColor(Color.blue)
        .background(Color.yellow)
    }
}

Now you can use Any background (including all Colors) you want

Preview

Note that those top and bottom white areas are safe are and you can use .edgesIgnoringSafeArea() modifier to get rid of them.


Restore

Since UITableView.appearance().backgroundColor applies globally, you can use .onAppear modifier to change it in different views (since it is a global change). So you can use another onAppear or onDisappear to reset it back to what you want.

And the default colors are:

UIColor.systemGroupedBackground for the grouped style. And

UIColor.systemBackground for the plain style.

And they both have automatic support for both dark mode and light mode.

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