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# UITabGroup.SidebarAppearance

The appearance of a section in a sidebar.

```
enum SidebarAppearance
```

## Topics

### Enumeration Cases

[`case automatic`](/documentation/UIKit/UITabGroup/SidebarAppearance-swift.enum/automatic)

The default appearance showing the group and its children appropriately depending
on the group level it is in.

[`case inline`](/documentation/UIKit/UITabGroup/SidebarAppearance-swift.enum/inline)

Displays only the children alongside the group’s siblings.

[`case rootSection`](/documentation/UIKit/UITabGroup/SidebarAppearance-swift.enum/rootSection)

Displays the group and its children as a top-level group of the sidebar.

### Initializers

[`init?(rawValue: UInt)`](/documentation/UIKit/UITabGroup/SidebarAppearance-swift.enum/init(rawValue:))

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`RawRepresentable`](/documentation/Swift/RawRepresentable)

[`BitwiseCopyable`](/documentation/Swift/BitwiseCopyable)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

[`SendableMetatype`](/documentation/Swift/SendableMetatype)

[`Sendable`](/documentation/Swift/Sendable)

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