Apple Human Interface Guidelines

Document change date: Aug 12, 2026, 4:00 AM CDT

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Getting started
- Design principles
- Designing for iOS
- Designing for iPadOS
- Designing for macOS
- Designing for tvOS
- Designing for visionOS
- Designing for watchOS
- Designing for games
- Designing for iPhone Duo
Foundations
- Accessibility
- App icons
- Branding
- Color
- Dark Mode
- Icons
- Images
- Immersive experiences
- Inclusion
- Layout
- Materials
- Motion
- Privacy
- Right to left
- SF Symbols
- Spatial layout
- Typography
- Writing
Patterns
- Charting data
- Collaboration and sharing
- Drag and drop
- Entering data
- Feedback
- File management
- Going full screen
- Launching
- Live-viewing apps
- Loading
- Managing accounts
- Managing notifications
- Modality
- Multitasking
- Offering help
- Onboarding
- Playing audio
- Playing haptics
- Playing video
- Printing
- Ratings and reviews
- Searching
- Settings
- Undo and redo
- Workouts
Components
- Content
  - Charts
  - Image views
  - Text views
  - Web views
- Layout and organization
  - Boxes
  - Collections
  - Column views
  - Disclosure controls
  - Labels
  - Lists and tables
  - Lockups
  - Outline views
  - Split views
  - Tab views
- Menus and actions
  - Activity views
  - Buttons
  - Context menus
  - Dock menus
  - Edit menus
  - Home Screen quick actions
  - Menus
  - Ornaments
  - Pop-up buttons
  - Pull-down buttons
  - The menu bar
  - Toolbars
- Navigation and search
  - Path controls
  - Search fields
  - Sidebars
  - Tab bars
  - Token fields
- Presentation
  - Action sheets
  - Alerts
  - Page controls
  - Panels
  - Popovers
  - Scroll views
  - Sheets
  - Windows
- Selection and input
  - Color wells
  - Combo boxes
  - Digit entry views
  - Image wells
  - Pickers
  - Segmented controls
  - Sliders
  - Steppers
  - Text fields
  - Toggles
  - Virtual keyboards
- Status
  - Activity rings
  - Gauges
  - Progress indicators
  - Rating indicators
- System experiences
  - App Shortcuts
  - Complications
  - Controls
  - Live Activities
  - Notifications
  - Snippets
  - Status bars
  - Top Shelf
  - Watch faces
  - Widgets
Inputs
- Action button
- Apple Pencil and Scribble
- Camera Control
- Digital Crown
- Eyes
- Focus and selection
- Game controls
- Gestures
- Gyroscope and accelerometer
- Keyboards
- Nearby interactions
- Pointing devices
- Remotes
Technologies
- AirPlay
- Always On
- App Clips
- Apple In-App Purchase
- Apple Pay
- Augmented reality
- CareKit
- CarPlay
- Game Center
- Generative AI
- HealthKit
- HomeKit
- iCloud
- ID Verifier
- iMessage apps and stickers
- Live Photos
- Mac Catalyst
- Machine learning
- Maps
- NFC
- Photo editing
- ResearchKit
- SharePlay
- ShazamKit
- Sign in with Apple
- Siri
- Tap to Pay on iPhone
- VoiceOver
- Wallet

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Accessibility Removed
Action button Removed
Action sheets Removed
Activity rings Removed
Activity views Removed
AirPlay Removed
Alerts Removed
Always On Removed
App Clips Removed
App icons Removed
App Shortcuts Removed
Apple Pay Removed
Apple Pencil and Scribble Removed
Augmented reality Removed
Boxes Removed
Branding Removed
Buttons Removed
Camera Control Removed
CareKit Removed
CarPlay Removed
Charting data Removed
Charts Removed
Collaboration and sharing Removed
Collections Removed
Color Removed
Color wells Removed
Column views Removed
Combo boxes Removed
Complications Removed
Context menus Removed
Controls Removed
Dark Mode Removed
Design principles Removed
Designing for games Removed
Designing for iOS Removed
Designing for iPadOS Removed
Designing for macOS Removed
Designing for tvOS Removed
Designing for visionOS Removed
Designing for watchOS Removed
Digit entry views Removed
Digital Crown Removed
Disclosure controls Removed
Dock menus Removed
Drag and drop Removed
Edit menus Removed
Entering data Removed
Eyes Removed
Feedback Removed
File management Removed
Focus and selection Removed
Game Center Removed
Game controls Removed
Gauges Removed
Generative AI Removed
Gestures Removed
Going full screen Removed
Gyroscope and accelerometer Removed
HealthKit Removed
Home Screen quick actions Removed
HomeKit Removed
iCloud Removed
Icons Removed
ID Verifier Removed
Image views Removed
Image wells Removed
Images Removed
iMessage apps and stickers Removed
Immersive experiences Removed
In-app purchase Removed
Inclusion Removed
Keyboards Removed
Labels Removed
Launching Removed
Layout Removed
Lists and tables Removed
Live Activities Removed
Live Photos Removed
Live-viewing apps Removed
Loading Removed
Lockups Removed
Mac Catalyst Removed
Machine learning Removed
Managing accounts Removed
Managing notifications Removed
Maps Removed
Materials Removed
Menus Removed
Modality Removed
Motion Removed
Multitasking Removed
Nearby interactions Removed
NFC Removed
Notifications Removed
Offering help Removed
Onboarding Removed
Ornaments Removed
Outline views Removed
Page controls Removed
Panels Removed
Path controls Removed
Photo editing Removed
Pickers Removed
Playing audio Removed
Playing haptics Removed
Playing video Removed
Pointing devices Removed
Pop-up buttons Removed
Popovers Removed
Printing Removed
Privacy Removed
Progress indicators Removed
Pull-down buttons Removed
Rating indicators Removed
Ratings and reviews Removed
Remotes Removed
ResearchKit Removed
Right to left Removed
Scroll views Removed
Search fields Removed
Searching Removed
Segmented controls Removed
Settings Removed
SF Symbols Removed
SharePlay Removed
ShazamKit Removed
Sheets Removed
Sidebars Removed
Sign in with Apple Removed
Siri Removed
Sliders Removed
Snippets Removed
Spatial layout Removed
Split views Removed
Status bars Removed
Steppers Removed
Tab bars Removed
Tab views Removed
Tap to Pay on iPhone Removed
Text fields Removed
Text views Removed
The menu bar Removed
Toggles Removed
Token fields Removed
Toolbars Removed
Top Shelf Removed
Typography Removed
Undo and redo Removed
Virtual keyboards Removed
VoiceOver Removed
Wallet Removed
Watch faces Removed
Web views Removed
Widgets Removed
Windows Removed
Workouts Removed
Writing Removed