# Sliders

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

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# Sliders

## Best practices

**Customize a slider’s appearance if it adds value.**

**Use familiar slider directions.**

**Consider supplementing a slider with a corresponding text field and stepper.**

## Platform considerations

### iOS, iPadOS

**Don’t use a slider to adjust audio volume.**

### macOS

**Consider giving live feedback as the value of a slider changes.**

**Choose a slider style that matches peoples’ expectations.**

**Consider using a label to introduce a slider.**

**Use tick marks to increase clarity and accuracy.**

**Consider adding labels to tick marks for even greater clarity.**

### visionOS

**Prefer horizontal sliders.**

### watchOS

**If necessary, create custom glyphs to communicate what the slider does.**

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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/sliders