# Remotes

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

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# Remotes

## Best practices

**Prefer using standard gestures to perform standard actions.**

**Be consistent with the tvOS focus experience.**

**Provide clear feedback that shows people what happens when they make gestures in your app.**

**Define new gestures only when it makes sense in your app.**

**Differentiate between press and tap, and avoid responding to an inadvertent tap.**

**Consider using the position of a tap to aid with navigation or gameplay.**

**In almost all cases, open the parent of the current screen when people press the Back button.**

**Respond correctly to the Play/Pause button during media playback.**

## Gestures

**Swipe.**

**Press.**

## Compatible remotes

**If your live-viewing app provides an EPG, respond to a remote’s EPG-browsing buttons in ways people expect.**

**While your content plays, respond to a compatible remote’s “page up” or “page down” button by changing the channel.**

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