# Feedback

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

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# Feedback

  * The current status of something

  * The success or failure of an important task or action

  * A warning about an action that can have negative consequences

  * An opportunity to correct a mistake or problematic situation

## Best practices

**Make sure all feedback is accessible.**

**Consider integrating status feedback into your interface.**

**Use alerts to deliver critical — and ideally actionable — information.**

**Warn people when they initiate a task that can cause data loss that’s unexpected and irreversible.**

**When it makes sense, confirm that a significant action or task has completed.**

**Show people when a command can’t be carried out and help them understand why.**

## Platform considerations

### watchOS

**Avoid displaying an indeterminate progress indicator — such as a loading indicator — in a watchOS app.**

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