# CareKit

Source: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/carekit
Skill: hig-technologies
Snapshot: 2025-02-02

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# CareKit

## Data and privacy

**Provide a coherent privacy policy.**

### HealthKit integration

**Request access to health data only when you need it.**

**Clarify your app’s intent by adding descriptive messages to the standard permission screen.**

**Manage health data sharing solely through the system’s privacy settings.**

## CareKit views

### Tasks

**Use the simple style for a one-step task.**

**Use the instructions style when you need to add informative text to a simple task.**

**Use the log style to help people log events.**

**Use the checklist style to display a list of actions or steps in a multistep task.**

**Use the grid style to display a grid of buttons in a multistep task.**

**Consider using color to reinforce the meaning of task items.**

**Combine accuracy with simplicity when describing a task and its steps.**

**Consider supplementing multistep or complex tasks with videos or images.**

### Charts

**Consider highlighting narratives and trends to illustrate progress.**

**Label chart elements clearly and succinctly.**

**Use distinct colors.**

**Consider providing a legend to add clarity.**

**Clearly denote units of time.**

**Consolidate large data sets for greater readability.**

**If necessary, offset data to keep charts proportional.**

### Contact views

**Consider using color to categorize care team members.**

## Notifications

**Minimize notifications.**

**Consider providing a detail view.**

## Symbols and branding

  * Designs that coordinate with CareKit’s visual design language

  * Support for creating custom symbols to represent the unique content in your app

**Design a relevant care symbol.**

**Incorporate refined, unobtrusive branding.**

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