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💡 Enable Multi-Finger Tap Gestures in SwiftUI

fatbobman ( 东坡肘子)
3 min readFeb 18, 2025

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TL;DR: SwiftUI does not natively support multi-finger taps, but you can implement them using UIKit integrations. For iOS 18+, leverage UIGestureRecognizerRepresentable to bridge UIKit gestures into SwiftUI. For earlier iOS versions, use UIViewRepresentable to wrap UITapGestureRecognizer for multi-finger tap detection.

Background

SwiftUI’s built-in TapGesture supports only single-finger taps and the number of consecutive taps but does not natively handle multi-finger taps. This guide provides solutions for implementing multi-finger tap gestures across different iOS versions.

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fatbobman ( 东坡肘子)
fatbobman ( 东坡肘子)

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