47.12 Widget Placeholder
As previously mentioned, the widget extension must provide a placeholder. This is the view which is displayed to the user while the widget is initializing and takes the form of the widget entry view without any data or information. Consider the following example widget:
Figure 47-2
The above example, of course, shows the widget running after it has received timeline data to be displayed. During initialization, however, the placeholder view resembling Figure 47-3 would be expected to be displayed:
Figure 47-3
Fortunately, SwiftUI includes the redacted(reason:) modifier which may be applied to an instance of the widget entry view to act as a placeholder. The following is an example of a placeholder view declaration for a widget extension using the redacted() modifier (note that the reason is set to placeholder):
struct PlaceholderView : View {
var body: some View {
...
