# Menus and shortcuts Simplify interactions with your app using menu systems, contextual menus, Home Screen quick actions, and keyboard shortcuts. ## Topics ### Menu elements and keyboard shortcuts [Adding menus and shortcuts to the menu bar and user interface](/documentation/UIKit/adding-menus-and-shortcuts-to-the-menu-bar-and-user-interface) Provide quick access to useful actions by adding menus and keyboard shortcuts to your Mac app built with Mac Catalyst. [Adopting menus and UIActions in your user interface](/documentation/UIKit/adopting-menus-and-uiactions-in-your-user-interface) Add menus to your user interface, with built-in button support and bar-button items, and create custom menu experiences. [`UIMenuElement`](/documentation/UIKit/UIMenuElement) An object representing a menu, action, or command. [`UIAction`](/documentation/UIKit/UIAction) A menu element that performs its action in a closure. [`UICommand`](/documentation/UIKit/UICommand) A menu element that performs its action in a selector. [`UIKeyCommand`](/documentation/UIKit/UIKeyCommand) An object that specifies a key press perform on a hardware keyboard and the resulting action. [`UIDeferredMenuElement`](/documentation/UIKit/UIDeferredMenuElement) A placeholder menu element that the system replaces with the result of the block’s completion handler. [`UIDeferredMenuElement.Provider`](/documentation/UIKit/UIDeferredMenuElement/Provider) [`UIMenuElement.Attributes`](/documentation/UIKit/UIMenuElement/Attributes) Attributes that determine the style of the menu element. [`UIMenuElement.State`](/documentation/UIKit/UIMenuElement/State) Constants that indicate the state of an action- or command-based menu element. [`UIMenuLeaf`](/documentation/UIKit/UIMenuLeaf) An interface for an object that represents a menu element without child elements. ### Edit menus [`UIEditMenuInteraction`](/documentation/UIKit/UIEditMenuInteraction) An interaction that provides edit operations using a menu. [`UIEditMenuInteractionDelegate`](/documentation/UIKit/UIEditMenuInteractionDelegate) The methods for customizing the menu the interaction displays. [`UIEditMenuConfiguration`](/documentation/UIKit/UIEditMenuConfiguration) An object containing the configuration details for the menu your app presents in response to an edit menu interaction. [`UIResponderStandardEditActions`](/documentation/UIKit/UIResponderStandardEditActions) A set of standard methods that apps can adopt to support editing. ### App menus [`UIMenu`](/documentation/UIKit/UIMenu) A container for grouping related menu elements in an app menu or contextual menu. [`UIMenuBuilder`](/documentation/UIKit/UIMenuBuilder) An interface for adding and removing menus from a menu system. [`UIMenuSystem`](/documentation/UIKit/UIMenuSystem) An object representing a main or contextual menu system. [`UIMainMenuSystem`](/documentation/UIKit/UIMainMenuSystem) The main menu system. ### Contextual menus [`UIContextMenuSystem`](/documentation/UIKit/UIContextMenuSystem) The context menu system. [`UIContextMenuInteraction`](/documentation/UIKit/UIContextMenuInteraction) An interaction object that you use to display relevant actions for your content. [`UIContextMenuInteractionDelegate`](/documentation/UIKit/UIContextMenuInteractionDelegate) The methods for providing the set of actions to perform on your content, and for customizing the preview of that content. [`UITargetedPreview`](/documentation/UIKit/UITargetedPreview) An object describing the view to use during preview-related animations. [`UIPreviewTarget`](/documentation/UIKit/UIPreviewTarget) An object that specifies the container view to use for animations. [`UIPreviewParameters`](/documentation/UIKit/UIPreviewParameters) Additional parameters to use when animating a preview interface. ### Find and replace [`UIFindInteraction`](/documentation/UIKit/UIFindInteraction) An interaction that provides text finding and replacing operations using a system find panel. [`UIFindInteractionDelegate`](/documentation/UIKit/UIFindInteractionDelegate) A delegate object that provides a session object to manage the search state for a find interaction and receives notifications of search session lifetimes. [`UIFindSession`](/documentation/UIKit/UIFindSession) An abstract base class that manages the state, presentation, and behavior for a search that the find interaction initiates. [`UITextSearchingFindSession`](/documentation/UIKit/UITextSearchingFindSession) A find session object that wraps a searchable object implementing the text-searching protocol. [`UITextSearching`](/documentation/UIKit/UITextSearching-53wjq) The methods you use on a find session’s searchable objects to perform search operations and decorate the found text results. [`UITextSearching`](/documentation/UIKit/UITextSearching-3wkjv) The methods you use on a find session’s searchable objects to perform search operations and decorate the found text results. [`UITextSearchOptions`](/documentation/UIKit/UITextSearchOptions) An object containing the configurable options for a text search. [`UITextSearchFoundTextStyle`](/documentation/UIKit/UITextSearchFoundTextStyle) Constants that describe the style a find session uses to decorate the text. [`UITextSearchOptions.WordMatchMethod`](/documentation/UIKit/UITextSearchOptions/WordMatchMethod-swift.enum) Constants that describe the method to use when searching text for words that match a string. [`UIFindSession.SearchResultDisplayStyle`](/documentation/UIKit/UIFindSession/SearchResultDisplayStyle-swift.enum) Constants that describe the results summary the find panel UI includes. ### Home Screen quick actions [Add Home Screen quick actions](/documentation/UIKit/add-home-screen-quick-actions) Expose commonly used functionality with static or dynamic 3D Touch Home Screen quick actions. [`UIApplicationShortcutItem`](/documentation/UIKit/UIApplicationShortcutItem) An application shortcut item, also called a Home Screen dynamic quick action, that specifies a user-initiated action for your app. [`UIApplicationShortcutIcon`](/documentation/UIKit/UIApplicationShortcutIcon) An image you can optionally associate with a Home Screen quick action to improve its appearance and usability. [`UIMutableApplicationShortcutItem`](/documentation/UIKit/UIMutableApplicationShortcutItem) A mutable Home Screen dynamic quick action, which is an item that specifies a configurable user-initiated action for your app. --- Copyright © 2026 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. | [Terms of Use](https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/terms/site.html) | [Privacy Policy](https://www.apple.com/privacy/privacy-policy)