hig-components-system

name	hig-components-system
description	Apple HIG guidance for system experience components: widgets, live activities, notifications, complications, home screen quick actions, top shelf, watch faces, app clips, and app shortcuts.
risk	unknown
source	community
date_added	2026-02-27

Apple HIG: System Experiences

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Key Principles

General

1. Glanceable, immediate value. System experiences bring your app's most important content to surfaces the user sees without launching your app. Design for seconds of attention.

2. Respect platform context. A Lock Screen widget has different constraints than a Home Screen widget. A complication is far smaller than a top shelf item.

Widgets

3. Show relevant information, not everything. Display the most useful subset, updated appropriately.

4. Support multiple sizes with distinct layouts. Each size should be a thoughtful design, not a scaled version of another.