FB16679936: In SwiftUI, it should be possible to have an item with a submenu be checked, meaning to mark a Menu in a Menu as checked (checkmark)

[sindresorhus]

• Date: 2025-03-01
• Resolution: Open
• Area: SwiftUI
• OS: macOS 15.2
• Type: Suggestion

Description

In AppKit, you can have a menu with submenus, and have the menu item that contains the submenu be checked. In SwiftUI, to have a menu item be checked we need to use Toggle or a Picker. This means, it’s impossible to get a menu item that is both checked and contains a submenu.

Use-case: I created a font picker using a Menu. Each item in the main menu is a font name. Some fonts have sub-types, which goes into a submenu, but I still want to show a checkmark for the main item, even if a subtype is checked too.