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# Widgets, Live Activities, and Controls

Implement interactive widgets, controls, watch complications, and Live Activities using app intents.

## Overview

You can make widgets, Live Activities, and other experiences interactive by adding buttons and
toggles to their interfaces. When someone interacts with one of those controls, you respond by
creating an app intent. Use those app intents to perform the associated actions in your app.

## Topics

### Essentials

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/WidgetKit/Adding-interactivity-to-widgets-and-Live-Activities>

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/WidgetKit/Developing-a-WidgetKit-strategy>

### Controls (WidgetKit)

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/WidgetKit/Controls-Collection>

[`protocol ControlConfigurationIntent`](/documentation/AppIntents/ControlConfigurationIntent)

An interface for configuring a Control Center module.

### Live Activities

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/WidgetKit/LiveActivities-Collection>

[`protocol LiveActivityIntent`](/documentation/AppIntents/LiveActivityIntent)

An intent that starts, pauses, or otherwise modifies a Live Activity when it runs.

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/ActivityKit>

### Widgets

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/WidgetKit/Widget-Suggestions-In-Smart-Stacks>

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/WidgetKit/Migrating-from-SiriKit-Intents-to-App-Intents>

[`protocol WidgetConfigurationIntent`](/documentation/AppIntents/WidgetConfigurationIntent)

An interface for configuring a WidgetKit widget.

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/WidgetKit>


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