Thanks. I was starting to think this might be the current answer. However, it would be a great future objective to make this a feature of iCloud Family Sharing.

Improved Solution After creating my first workaround, I kept thinking about a more direct and generic solution. My ultimate solution is still based on dragging Transferrable PersistentIdentifiers, but does it internally. I have created a Swift Package that implements generic extensions to the .draggable() and .dropDestination() SwiftUI View modifiers to facilitate direct Drag and Drop operations with SwiftData PersistentModel objects. The Package URL is: https://github.com/Whiffer/swiftdata-transferrable A complete project that demonstrates how to use this package is available at: https://github.com/Whiffer/SampleSwiftDataTransferrable

I was also looking for a workaround, but I think I actually came up with a workable solution. I took a completely different approach by not trying to drag and drop the PersistentModel objects themselves, but instead, dragging and dropping the PersistentIdentifier struct from a PersistentModel object. This works well because PersistentIdentifier is already Codable and it is very easy to make it Transferable. Also, a PersistentIdentifier struct can be used to retrieve its corresponding PersistentModel object from the ModelContext. I have published a complete working sample program demonstrating this on GitHub: https://github.com/Whiffer/SwiftDataDragAndDropExample The important concepts are: Extend PersistentIdentifier to be Transferable and define your own contentType for it extension PersistentIdentifier: Transferable { public static var transferRepresentation: some TransferRepresentation { CodableRepresentation(contentType: .persistentModelID) } } Extend PersistentIdentifier with a generic convenience function to retrieve PersistentModel objects from the ModelContext extension PersistentIdentifier { public func persistentModel<Model>(from context: ModelContext) -> Model? where Model : PersistentModel { return context.model(for: self) as? Model } } Use PersistentIdentifier structs with the .draggable() and .dropDestination() View Modifiers Text(item.timestamp, format: Date.FormatStyle(date: .numeric, time: .standard)) .draggable(item.persistentModelID) .dropDestination(for: PersistentIdentifier.self) { persistentModelIDs, _ in let targetItem = item // for clarification for persistentModelID in persistentModelIDs { if let draggedItem: Item = persistentModelID.persistentModel(from: self.modelContext) { print("\(draggedItem.timestamp) dropped on: \(targetItem.timestamp)") } } return true }

I have the same problem too. After many attempts to do a more reasonable workaround, I came up with this brut force kludge just to get past it. @MainActor static func allRootItems() -> [Item] { //TODO: What I wanted to do - Hopefully this will be fixed someday // if let items = try? context.fetch(FetchDescriptor(predicate: #Predicate<Item>{ $0.parent == nil } ) ) //TODO: Very temporary workaround - Hopefully this will not be needed someday if let items = try? context.fetch(FetchDescriptor<Item>()) { return items.compactMap { $0.parent == nil ? $0 : nil } } else { return [Item]() } }

I can confirm that my original issue was fixed in beta 2 and continues to work in beta 3. Thank you Apple!

I fully expect Apple to provide this capability eventually, but after studying the headers for the @SectionedFetchRequest property wrapper, I began to wonder how hard it would be to create a package to do the same thing for Swift Data. The package README also has a link to a fully functional sample program that demonstrates the package. This is what I came up with: https://github.com/Whiffer/swiftdata-sectionedquery

At the live SwiftData Q&A session last week, this same question was asked several times. Each time the developer/moderator said this was not yet implemented and a Feedback should be submitted to request it. Mine is FB12292624.