# Collaboration and sharing

Source: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/collaboration-and-sharing
Skill: hig-patterns
Snapshot: 2025-02-02

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# Collaboration and sharing

## Best practices

**Place the Share button in a convenient location, like a toolbar, to make it easy for people to start sharing or collaborating.**

**If necessary, customize the share sheet or sharing popover to offer the types of file sharing your app supports.**

**Write succinct phrases that summarize the sharing permissions you support.**

**Provide a set of simple sharing options that streamline collaboration setup.**

**Prominently display the Collaboration button as soon as collaboration starts.**

**Provide custom actions in the collaboration popover only if needed.**

**If it makes sense in your app, customize the title of the modal view’s collaboration-management button.**

**Consider posting collaboration event notifications in Messages.**

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For the complete guidance, including worked examples and illustrations, see the canonical page: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/collaboration-and-sharing