# Action sheets

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

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# Action sheets

## Best practices

**Use an action sheet — not an alert — to offer choices related to an intentional action.**

**Use action sheets sparingly.**

**Aim to keep titles short enough to display on a single line.**

**Provide a message only if necessary.**

**If necessary, provide a Cancel button that lets people reject an action that might destroy data.**

**Make destructive choices visually prominent.**

## Platform considerations

### iOS, iPadOS

**Use an action sheet — not a menu — to provide choices related to an action.**

**Avoid letting an action sheet scroll.**

### watchOS

**Avoid displaying more than four buttons in an action sheet, including the Cancel button.**

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