# Sheets

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

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# Sheets

## Best practices

**Use a sheet to present simple content or tasks.**

**For complex or prolonged user flows, consider alternatives to sheets.**

**Display only one sheet at a time from the main interface.**

**Use a nonmodal view when you want to present supplementary items that affect the main task in the parent view.**

## Platform considerations

### iOS, iPadOS

**In an iPhone app, consider supporting the medium detent to allow progressive disclosure of the sheet’s content.**

**Include a grabber in a resizable sheet.**

**Support swiping to dismiss a sheet.**

**Position Done and Cancel buttons as people expect.**

**Prefer using the page or form sheet presentation styles in an iPadOS app.**

### macOS

**Present a sheet in a reasonable default size.**

**Let people interact with other app windows without first dismissing a sheet.**

**Position a sheet’s dismiss buttons as people expect.**

**Use a panel instead of a sheet if people need to repeatedly provide input and observe results.**

### visionOS

**Avoid displaying a sheet that emerges from the bottom edge of a window.**

**Present a sheet in a default size that helps people retain their context.**

### watchOS

**Use a sheet only when your modal task requires a custom title or custom content presentation.**

**Keep sheet interactions brief and occasional.**

**Change the default label of the dismiss control only if it makes sense in your app.**

**If you change the default label, prefer using SF Symbols to represent the action.**

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