A SwiftUI search adapter needs its own request ownership

Robin Winters · October 3, 2026 · Native iOS engineering and fitness technology This standalone teaching example and article were prepared with coding-assistant support. The events are synthetic. The code is separate from ShowFlex, whose shipped iPhone product is available on the App Store. A search controller can correctly reject stale requests while its view adapter still publishes the wrong state. The useful question is not only whether the controller owns its result: it is whether the task waiting for that result still owns the screen.