hig-components-dialogs
Apple HIG guidance for presentation components including alerts, action sheets, popovers, sheets, and digit entry views. Use this skill when the user says 'should I use an alert or a sheet,' 'how do I show a confirmation dialog,' 'when should I use a popover,' 'my modals are annoying users,' or asks about alert design, action sheet, popover, sheet, modal, dialog, digit entry, confirmation dialog, warning dialog, modal presentation, non-modal content, destructive action confirmation, or overlay UI patterns. Cross-references: hig-components-menus, hig-components-controls, hig-components-search, hig-patterns.
What this skill does
# Apple HIG: Presentation Components
Check for `.claude/apple-design-context.md` before asking questions. Use existing context and only ask for information not already covered.
## Key Principles
1. **Alerts: sparingly, for critical situations.** Errors needing attention, destructive action confirmations, or information requiring acknowledgment. They interrupt flow and demand a response.
2. **Sheets: focused tasks that maintain context.** Slides in from the edge (or attaches to a window on macOS). Use for creating items, editing settings, multi-step forms.
3. **Popovers: non-modal on iPad and Mac.** Appear next to the trigger element, dismissed by tapping outside. For additional information, options, or controls without taking over the screen.
4. **Action sheets: choosing among actions.** Present when picking from multiple actions, especially if one is destructive. iPhone: slide up from bottom. iPad: appear as popovers.
5. **Minimize interruptions.** Before reaching for a modal, consider inline presentation or making the action undoable instead.
6. **Concise, actionable alert text.** Short descriptive title. Brief message body if needed. Button labels should be specific verbs ("Delete", "Save"), not "OK".
7. **Mark destructive actions clearly.** Destructive button style (red text). Place destructive buttons where users are less likely to tap reflexively.
8. **Provide a cancel option** for alerts and action sheets with multiple actions. On action sheets, cancel appears at the bottom, separated.
9. **Digit entry: focused and accessible.** Appropriately sized input fields, automatic advancement between digits, support for paste and autofill.
10. **Adapt presentation to platform.** The same interaction may use different components on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and visionOS.
## Reference Index
| Reference | Topic | Key content |
|---|---|---|
| [alerts.md](references/alerts.md) | Alerts | Button ordering, title/message text, confirmation, destructive actions |
| [action-sheets.md](references/action-sheets.md) | Action sheets | Multiple actions, cancel option, destructive handling |
| [popovers.md](references/popovers.md) | Popovers | Non-modal, dismiss on tap outside, iPad/Mac |
| [sheets.md](references/sheets.md) | Sheets | Modal task, context preservation |
| [digit-entry-views.md](references/digit-entry-views.md) | Digit entry | PIN input, autofill, auto-advance |
## Output Format
1. **Recommended presentation type with rationale** and why alternatives are less suitable.
2. **Content guidelines** -- title, message, button labels per Apple's tone and brevity rules.
3. **Dismiss behavior** -- how the user dismisses and what happens (save, discard, cancel).
4. **Alternatives** -- when the scenario might not need a modal at all (inline feedback, undo, progressive disclosure).
## Questions to Ask
1. What information or action does the presentation need?
2. Blocking or non-blocking?
3. Which platforms?
4. How often does this appear?
## Related Skills
- **hig-components-menus** -- Buttons and toolbar items triggering presentations
- **hig-components-controls** -- Input controls within sheets and popovers
- **hig-components-search** -- Search and navigation within presented views
- **hig-patterns** -- Modality, interruptions, user flow management
- **hig-foundations** -- Color, typography, layout for presentation components
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