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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Text alignment

Adjust text alignment to match the interface direction, if the system doesn’t do so automatically.

Align a paragraph based on its language, not on the current context.

Use a consistent alignment for all text items in a list.

Numbers and characters

Don’t reverse the order of numerals in a specific number.

Reverse the order of numerals that show progress or a counting direction; never flip the numerals themselves.

Controls

Flip controls that show progress from one value to another.

Flip controls that help people navigate or access items in a fixed order.

Preserve the direction of a control that refers to an actual direction or points to an onscreen area.

Visually balance adjacent Latin and RTL scripts when necessary.

Images

Avoid flipping images like photographs, illustrations, and general artwork.

Reverse the positions of images when their order is meaningful.

Interface icons

Flip interface icons that represent text or reading direction.

Consider creating a localized version of an interface icon that displays text.

Flip an interface icon that shows forward or backward motion.

Don’t flip logos or universal signs and marks.

In general, avoid flipping interface icons that depict real-world objects.

Before merely flipping a complex custom interface icon, consider its individual components and the overall visual balance.

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Right to left

Text alignment

Numbers and characters

Controls

Images

Interface icons

Platform considerations

Resources

Developer documentation

Videos

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