# Action button

Source: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/action-button
Skill: hig-components-menus
Snapshot: 2025-02-02

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# Action button

## Best practices

**Support the Action button with a set of your app’s essential functions.**

**For each action you support, write a short label that succinctly describes it.**

**Prefer letting the system show people how to use the Action button with your app.**

## Platform considerations

### iOS

**Let people use your actions without leaving their current context.**

### watchOS

**Consider offering a secondary function that supports or advances the primary action people choose.**

**Prefer using subsequent button presses to support additional functionality rather than to stop or conclude a function.**

**Pause the current function when people press the Action button and side button together.**

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