How to make a List or ScrollView in SwiftUI that starts from the bottom

When I figured this out I felt like I’d got a week of my life back.

SwiftUI does not yet support imperatively scrolling a ScrollView to a specific offset. This is not great if you want to make a chat-style UI where it needs to start from the bottom.

You don’t have to wrap everything up in a UIViewRepresentable component or put content in a nested UIHostingController (which I found messes up NavigationLink behaviour). Here’s how I fixed this problem:

There it is. You just rotate the List or ScrollView 180º and flip it horizontally, then flip each row in the same way.

Here’s the view modifier this calls:

And there you have it.

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