What’s New

iOS

• Support for Dark Mode
• Tinted controls support appearance overrides. Choose from system-provided tint colors or use your own.
• Toolbars, tab bars, and navigation bar buttons integrate with the new SF Symbols feature. Copying and pasting glyphs from the SF Symbols app into the Sketch Symbol overrides the inspector.
• Non-default Dynamic Type text styles removed for a simpler text style menu.
• New text styles:
  • Left, Center, and Right alignments for all text styles
  • Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary text style variants of all text styles
  • Dark text variants of all text styles
  • Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic text style variants for Large Title, Title1, Title2, Title3, and Headline
  • Italic text style variant for Headline
• Appearance styles added for new and updated iOS system colors:
  • Fill colors
  • Separator colors
  • Label colors
  • Background colors
  • Grouped background colors
  • Tint colors
• Control appearances updated, including:
  • Segmented control
  • Stepper
  • Slider
• Background texture updated for:
  • Navigation bar
  • Toolbar
  • Tab Bar
• New card-style modal sheet options for Navigation Bars
• ApplePay buttons added
• Sign In with Apple buttons added
• Appearance of Info and Add buttons updated
• Home Screen Quick Action appearance updated
• Activity View Controller (Share Sheet) updated
• iPad Form and Page Sheets updated
• Table View symbols reorganized

Bug Fixes:

• Name of section index symbol (Sketch) now consistent
• Resizing behavior of search fields that resulted in glyphs scaling corrected
• Grouped table header and footer colors corrected (was 142,142,147, now 109,109,113)

macOS

• Inner shadow removed from sheets (Sketch, Photoshop, XD)

Bug Fixes:

• Pop-up button label now wraps correctly when control width is shortened (Sketch)

Accessibility guidance for all platforms is now combined and includes:

• Best practices for designing inclusive apps
• Guidelines for enhancing the VoiceOver user experience
• Techniques for making appearance and motion effects more accessible
• Expanded guidance for user interaction, including gestures, haptics, buttons, and more
• Expanded guidance for text, color, and content

The HomeKit Human Interface Guidelines now include:

• New guidance for creating a great setup experience
• Expanded guidance for helping people learn new Siri interactions