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.

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Page controls

Best practices

Use page controls to represent movement between an ordered list of pages.

Center a page control at the bottom of the view or window.

Customizing indicators

Make sure custom indicator images are simple and clear.

Customize the default indicator image only when it enhances the page control’s overall meaning.

Avoid using more than two different indicator images in a page control.

Avoid coloring indicator images.

Platform considerations

iOS, iPadOS

Avoid animating page transitions during scrubbing.

Automatic — Displays the background only when people interact with the control. Use this style when the page control isn’t the primary navigational element in the UI.
Prominent — Always displays the background. Use this style only when the control is the primary navigational control in the screen.
Minimal — Never displays the background. Use this style when you just want to show the position of the current page in the list and you don’t need to provide visual feedback during scrubbing.

Avoid supporting the scrubber when you use the minimal background style.

Page controls

Page controls

Best practices

Customizing indicators

Platform considerations

iOS, iPadOS

tvOS

visionOS

watchOS

Resources

Developer documentation

Change log

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