Snapshot of SwiftUI view is partially cut off

Question

I tried to create a UIImage from a SwiftUI view, a snapshot, with the code from HWS: How to convert a SwiftUI view to an image.

I get the following result, which is obviously incorrect because the image is cut-off.

Code:

struct ContentView: View {
    @State private var savedImage: UIImage?

    var textView: some View {
        Text("Hello, SwiftUI")
            .padding()
            .background(Color.blue)
            .foregroundColor(.white)
            .clipShape(Capsule())
    }

    var body: some View {
        ZStack {
            VStack(spacing: 100) {
                textView

                Button("Save to image") {
                    savedImage = textView.snapshot()
                }
            }

            if let savedImage = savedImage {
                Image(uiImage: savedImage)
                    .border(Color.red)
            }
        }
    }
}

extension View {
    func snapshot() -> UIImage {
        let controller = UIHostingController(rootView: self)
        let view = controller.view

        let targetSize = controller.view.intrinsicContentSize
        view?.bounds = CGRect(origin: .zero, size: targetSize)
        view?.backgroundColor = .clear

        let renderer = UIGraphicsImageRenderer(size: targetSize)

        return renderer.image { _ in
            view?.drawHierarchy(in: controller.view.bounds, afterScreenUpdates: true)
        }
    }
}

It looks like the original view that is snapshot is lower down than it should be, but I'm not sure. How do I fix this?

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Edits

We have discovered this problem does not occur on iOS 14, only iOS 15. So the question is... how can this be fixed for iOS 15?

Answer 1

I also recently noticed this issue. I tested on different Simulators (for example, iPhone 8 and iPhone 13 Pro) and realized that the offset seems always half the status bar height. So I suspect that when you call drawHierarchy(in:afterScreenUpdates:), internally SwiftUI always takes safe area insets into account.

Therefore, I modified the snapshot() function in your View extension by using the edgesIgnoringSafeArea(_:) view modifier, and it worked:

extension View {
    func snapshot() -> UIImage {
        let controller = UIHostingController(rootView: self.edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all))
        let view = controller.view

        let targetSize = controller.view.intrinsicContentSize
        view?.bounds = CGRect(origin: .zero, size: targetSize)
        view?.backgroundColor = .clear

        let renderer = UIGraphicsImageRenderer(size: targetSize)

        return renderer.image { _ in
            view?.drawHierarchy(in: controller.view.bounds, afterScreenUpdates: true)
        }
    }
}