Debugging SwiftUI Image Flickering: Three Bugs Stacked on Top of Each Other

The Problem I was building a music streaming app, and the album artwork kept flickering. Not just during track changes — even while playing the same song, the artwork would briefly disappear and reappear. The blurred background on the full player was especially bad. I figured it was slow image loading, so I added caching. Still flickered. Dug deeper and found three bugs stacked on top of each other. ...

April 21, 2026 · 3 min · Young