diff --git a/Sources/SwiftCrossUI/Environment/EnvironmentValues.swift b/Sources/SwiftCrossUI/Environment/EnvironmentValues.swift
index 8c055bb1b5d..5925f325b32 100644
--- a/Sources/SwiftCrossUI/Environment/EnvironmentValues.swift
+++ b/Sources/SwiftCrossUI/Environment/EnvironmentValues.swift
@@ -98,6 +98,9 @@ public struct EnvironmentValues {
     /// Whether the text should be selectable. Set by ``View/textSelectionEnabled(_:)``.
     public var isTextSelectionEnabled: Bool
 
+    /// The menu ordering to use.
+    public var menuOrder: MenuOrder
+
     /// Backing storage for extensible subscript
     private var extraValues: [ObjectIdentifier: Any]
 
@@ -226,6 +229,7 @@ public struct EnvironmentValues {
         isEnabled = true
         scrollDismissesKeyboardMode = .automatic
         isTextSelectionEnabled = false
+        menuOrder = .automatic
         allowLayoutCaching = false
     }
 
diff --git a/Sources/SwiftCrossUI/Values/MenuOrder.swift b/Sources/SwiftCrossUI/Values/MenuOrder.swift
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..567e2100bae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Sources/SwiftCrossUI/Values/MenuOrder.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+public enum MenuOrder: Hashable, Sendable {
+    /// The automatic behavior.
+    case automatic
+    /// Sorts items so the first item is closest to where the user opened the menu from.
+    case priority
+    /// Sorts items in the order given (top to bottom).
+    case fixed
+}
diff --git a/Sources/SwiftCrossUI/Views/Modifiers/MenuModifiers.swift b/Sources/SwiftCrossUI/Views/Modifiers/MenuModifiers.swift
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9b529f8d2f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Sources/SwiftCrossUI/Views/Modifiers/MenuModifiers.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+extension View {
+    /// Sets the menu sort order, for backends that support it.
+    ///
+    /// This is currently only respected by UIKitBackend, and only on iOS/tvOS
+    /// 16 and up. On other backends, it always behaves as if set to ``MenuOrder/fixed``.
+    public func menuOrder(_ order: MenuOrder) -> some View {
+        environment(\.menuOrder, order)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/Sources/UIKitBackend/UIKitBackend+Menu.swift b/Sources/UIKitBackend/UIKitBackend+Menu.swift
index 9bb4cd72116..8feb20d60a0 100644
--- a/Sources/UIKitBackend/UIKitBackend+Menu.swift
+++ b/Sources/UIKitBackend/UIKitBackend+Menu.swift
@@ -58,6 +58,13 @@ extension UIKitBackend {
             setButtonTitle(buttonWidget, label, environment: environment)
             buttonWidget.child.menu = menu.uiMenu
             buttonWidget.child.showsMenuAsPrimaryAction = true
+            if #available(iOS 16, tvOS 17, macCatalyst 16, *) {
+                buttonWidget.child.preferredMenuElementOrder = switch environment.menuOrder {
+                    case .automatic: .automatic
+                    case .priority: .priority
+                    case .fixed: .fixed
+                }
+            }
         } else {
             preconditionFailure("Current OS is too old to support menu buttons.")
         }