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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SharePlay

Best practices

Let people know that you support SharePlay.

If part of your app requires a subscription, consider ways to help nonsubscriber participants quickly join a group activity.

Support Picture in Picture (PiP) when possible.

Use the term SharePlay correctly.

Briefly describe each activity.

Make it easy to start sharing an activity.

Help people prepare to join a session before displaying the activity.

When possible, defer app tasks that might delay a shared activity.

Platform considerations

visionOS

Choose the spatial Persona template that suits your shared activity.

Be prepared to launch directly into your shared activity.

Help people enter a shared activity together, but don’t force them.

Smoothly update a shared activity when new participants join.

Maintaining a shared context

Make sure everyone views the same state of your app.

Use Spatial Audio to enrich your shared activity.

When possible, let people discover natural, social solutions to confusions or conflicts that might arise during a shared experience.

Help people keep their private and shared content separate.

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Adjusting a shared context

Let people personalize their experience without changing the experience for others.

Consider when to give each participant a unique view of the shared content.

Make it easy for people to exit and rejoin a shared activity.

SharePlay

SharePlay

Best practices

Platform considerations

visionOS

Maintaining a shared context

Adjusting a shared context

Resources

Developer documentation

Videos

Change log

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