How should I design an iPad app using Apple's HIG?

Apple's HIG recommends using sidebars instead of bottom tab bars on iPadOS, supporting split views for multitasking, and adding pointer interactions. Apple HIG Skills provides instant, AI-ready guidance on all iPadOS conventions.

What are Apple's guidelines for adding Apple Pay?

Apple's HIG specifies exact payment button placement, flow design, error states, and UX patterns required for App Store approval. Apple HIG Skills gives your AI agent access to the full Apple Pay design guidelines.

How do I make my Apple app accessible?

Apple's HIG requires support for VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, sufficient color contrast ratios, and motor accessibility features like Switch Control. Apple HIG Skills covers all accessibility foundations and requirements.

How do I design for visionOS and Apple Vision Pro?

Apple's HIG for visionOS covers ornaments, volumes, immersive spaces, eye tracking, and spatial interaction patterns. Apple HIG Skills includes dedicated visionOS platform guidance and spatial layout references.

What are Apple's dark mode design guidelines?

Apple's HIG specifies using system semantic colors, material backgrounds, elevated surfaces, and vibrancy for dark mode. Apps should test in both modes and avoid hard-coded color values. Apple HIG Skills covers the full dark mode specification.

How should I design notifications for iOS apps?

Apple's HIG covers notification grouping, Live Activities, action buttons, and respecting user attention. Apple HIG Skills provides guidelines for the full notification system including widgets and complications.

Collaboration and sharing — Apple HIG Design Guidelines

Source: Apple Inc. Canonical content at https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/collaboration-and-sharing. This file is a structured index of that content, snapshot 2025-02-02. Apple HIG text and imagery are © Apple Inc.; this repository provides organization and cross-referencing for AI agent consumption only.

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.

Collaboration and sharing

Best practices

Platform considerations

visionOS

watchOS

Resources

Developer documentation

Videos

Change log

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