iOS 16.0 beta 1 added a new UIImage initialiser for creating a system image that allows both a variable color amount and symbol configuration to be provided: +[UIImage systemImageNamed:variableValue:withConfiguration:] In beta 1 I was able to use this just fine and could happily mix variable color with all the different render modes. In beta 2 using this initialiser always results in monochrome rendering. In beta 2, if I ask for multicolor I get monochrome. I don't get the new automatic render as images such as iphone.homebutton.radiowaves.left.and.right appear in monochrome, not hierarchical.

I am a UI designer. I have seen the official Apple Figma file for iOS17. I found many places where the margins, padding, etc. of components are 5px, 7px, 11PX, etc. What is the reason for doing it that way instead of using 8 point grid system?

I am trying to publish a very simple app which loads an external JSON which contains cooking recipes. When I submitted the app, the JSON contained only a couple of recipes and the verification team rejected claiming the article 4.2.0 (minimal design functionality); I asked more info and they told me to add more to the app; now I asked what the exactly mean, more entries in the external JSON file? Because this will be done slowly and has of course nothing to do with the app itself. Any hint? Thanks

Hi! I am working on the UI/UX project for Apple apps(iPhone/watchOS etc.) using FIGMA. I don't have any Apple device from where I could use 'SF Font' family natively. I have tried the alternative fonts but none of them appealed to me and my client too. I also downloaded their resources but still it changes the file after I edit the text. Thanks in Advance.

Ii have been waiting a couple of days for access to image playground also. I wonder if having my VPN activated during my initial early access request right after I installed 18.2 somehow put me in some sort of loop that’s not allowing me to be granted access. Is there anyone that has been waiting that had their VPN on when they requested early access?

For the Account Deletion requirement, does it require to have a page with a CTA such as "submit your request" or it can be a static page with a copy statement that let the user know their options to submit a request by reaching out to customer support via phone/email/etc. so the customer support can initiate the request?

Why is it that every time you update SF Symbols, all the fonts previously used get confused and mismatched? Why is it that every time you update SF symbols, you need to also download the SF fonts all over again? This is such a big issue that should not be happening. Puts our designs in jeopardy.

Hi. I would like to know, for Arab countries, should the first screenshot be placed on the right or left? Thank you in advance.

Question: Guide for Using Apple's macOS Sequoia UI Kit in Figma? I recently discovered that Apple has published a "macOS Sequoia UI Kit" on their Figma profile: https://www.figma.com/@apple As someone new to both UI kits in Figma and Mac app development, I'm looking for guidance on how to use this UI kit when designing a Mac app. Does anyone know if such a resource exists? I haven't been able to find one so far. Background I started developing a new macOS app about a month ago and have a basic working version with early functionality. I've realized I need to take a step back and create visual prototypes to inform where to invest future development time. The Sequoia UI Kit seems like it could be helpful, but I'm unsure how to use it. iOS but not macOS There are several tools available for designing iOS apps: https://createwithplay.com/ https://www.judo.app/ https://detailspro.app/ However, I'm not aware of similar tools specifically for macOS application design. Direction Apple publishes design UI kits for both Figma and Sketch. I want to avoid paying for Sketch (this is a hobby project), so I'm focusing on the Figma option. Ideally, I'd love to see the iOS-focused tools mentioned above support macOS design fully. Until then (if ever), I'm hoping to make the most of the Sequoia UI Kit in Figma. Any guidance or resources would be greatly appreciated!

I have an App in TestFlight that looks wrong because the fonts are too large. The problem shows up only on one tester's iPhone 13 Pro. If I look at the app in the Simulator, it looks as it should. The App in an earlier version looks fine on the user's phone downloaded from the App store. The App also looks fine for a TestFlight user using an iPhone 12. On the problem phone, the font, Avenir Next Condensed, works fine, but it is just too large, so a text heading becomes garbled. Any ideas would be appreciated. https://www.bserg.org/Screen%20Shot%202022-03-24%20at%209.29.32%20AM.png TestFlight on left, Simulator on right.

Hello everyone, I'm working on a fun project for my teacher and want to give my software an Apple-inspired look. Specifically, I'm trying to create image buttons similar to Apple's design (as shown in the image). I need a button with an image that darkens its background when the user hovers over it with the mouse. Any suggestions on how to achieve this effect would be greatly appreciated. For now, I have this code : import SwiftUI struct StudentRow: View { @Environment(\.modelContext) private var modelContext var student: Student @State private var isHover = false var body: some View { HStack { Text(student.name) Image(systemName: "xmark") .opacity(isHover ? 0.9 : 0.1) .bold() .onTapGesture { deleteStudent(student, modelContext: modelContext) } .onHover { hovering in isHover = hovering } } .padding() } } However, I'm not entirely satisfied with the outcome of this code. (Trust me, the outcome is the same when using the magnifying glass icon) plz help

Hi I'm using Xcode and I was using SF symbol 4 before. I couldn't use it this time tried to download #5. Apparently not working in Canada, App Store said. Right now I have no symbols for my app. thanks Sumer

Is it okay to move Apple Log and legal Text up? like adding 140 bottom padding Apple Log and legal Text is always clearly shown after moving up

Hello, I've discovered symbols and it gave me idea that if use them in FCPX or Keynote, it would be lot easier to tell story to people. It is minimalistic and huge library. For example, in a camera review, I would use symbols to describe buttons of it, so in a long run, all cameras have same buttons as working but in different shapes and locations, in a language of symbols, it would a lot easier to understand especially in classic film cameras. 📸 This is my first post in Developer Forums, so Hello World! Thanks.

I am getting one crash with "NSConstraintBasedLayoutDeferOptimization" error. I my app, having one textview with tap gesture which opens pickerview as a inputview added in textview. Whenever, I tap on textview app gets crashed. Not able to find exact reason for this crash.

Has anyone a workaround here? ...a lot of font shuffling appeared after I upgraded my system to Sonoma. Cant get SF Pro to work in SF Symbols, meaning I cant copy any symbols, since the Apple fonts don't land properly there. Tried to delete all appal fonts, re-download them from Apple, reinstall and reboot the system. Nothing worked. I run all this on a MB Air M2 Any clues, anyone? Super grateful if anyone can help!

When using a double-tap primary action on a button, there will be a 1 second delay before the action is executed after the double-click is detected. Why is the design not like scrollview, which executes actions after double-tap detection? Is there a way to make the button perform an action after detecting a double-tap?

Hello, I'm working with a health / university organization that wants a mobile application for their educational content. (In short, it's CMS / course content. Similar to what you could build in WordPress or BlackBoard.) One idea is that we could wrap an app around a webview to render CMS content. My concern is that the app could be rejected due to Apple's guidelines on apps having to provide a unique, value-added experience for mobile: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#minimum-functionality I understand this, but given that this is a health/university organization and having a mobile app is a requirement for their contracts, would we still be able to push the app forward? To add onto this, our other option is to use the CMS in a headless way and render HTML through native components using a plugin, but it will still be quite some time before we would have an experienced truly catered to native / mobile. I can see that there are a good number of "information" apps from other organizations, that I could see being rejected for these same guidelines but weren't... so I think we have at least a half-decent chance of making our case, but: I don't want to take any chances and I need to know what to tell the organization stakeholders what they should do regarding the app through their business / organizational account. Has anyone has any experience with this?

This is a follow-up to my previous question: How to attribute/credit Apple Fonts added to app? In that previous post, I misremembered what I did and said I found fonts via macOS' FontBooks, when instead I came acrossUIFont.familyNames. Since these are included via UIKit, the legal implications should be different. I looked at various license agreements that govern iOS app development but haven't found anything mentioning fonts. Since these are included as part of UIKit, its reasonable to assume that developers are allowed to include these fonts--but in what ways? Am I allowed to let users create, say, documents with these fonts? Am I only allowed to display these fonts? There are 84 fonts, and judging by their FontBook entries, there is a wide range of licenses and restrictions. It seems unnecessarily harsh to have every iOS developer verify each one and figure out which they can legally keep if they want to offer their users access to all (for, say, a text-editing app). There must be some overarching rule that supersedes/encapsulates them, but this rule isn't clear to me after hours of research. I'm not a lawyer, and I don't think Apple expects every app developer to consult their lawyers on whether they can use system fonts. I'm about to send an email to Apple's legal team (I will post their response here if allowed), but in the meantime I want to hear what other devs think about this. In Xcode, entering UIFont.familyNames returns the following: ["Academy Engraved LET", "Al Nile", "American Typewriter", "Apple Color Emoji", "Apple SD Gothic Neo", "Apple Symbols", "Arial", "Arial Hebrew", "Arial Rounded MT Bold", "Avenir", "Avenir Next", "Avenir Next Condensed", "Baskerville", "Bodoni 72", "Bodoni 72 Oldstyle", "Bodoni 72 Smallcaps", "Bodoni Ornaments", "Bradley Hand", "Chalkboard SE", "Chalkduster", "Charter", "Cochin", "Copperplate", "Courier New", "Damascus", "Devanagari Sangam MN", "Didot", "DIN Alternate", "DIN Condensed", "Euphemia UCAS", "Farah", "Futura", "Galvji", "Geeza Pro", "Georgia", "Gill Sans", "Grantha Sangam MN", "Helvetica", "Helvetica Neue", "Hiragino Maru Gothic ProN", "Hiragino Mincho ProN", "Hiragino Sans", "Hoefler Text", "Impact", "Kailasa", "Kefa", "Khmer Sangam MN", "Kohinoor Bangla", "Kohinoor Devanagari", "Kohinoor Gujarati", "Kohinoor Telugu", "Lao Sangam MN", "Malayalam Sangam MN", "Marker Felt", "Menlo", "Mishafi", "Mukta Mahee", "Myanmar Sangam MN", "Noteworthy", "Noto Nastaliq Urdu", "Noto Sans Kannada", "Noto Sans Myanmar", "Noto Sans Oriya", "Optima", "Palatino", "Papyrus", "Party LET", "PingFang HK", "PingFang SC", "PingFang TC", "Rockwell", "Savoye LET", "Sinhala Sangam MN", "Snell Roundhand", "STIX Two Math", "STIX Two Text", "Symbol", "Tamil Sangam MN", "Thonburi", "Times New Roman", "Trebuchet MS", "Verdana", "Zapf Dingbats", "Zapfino"]

Hello, On iOS 16 and macOS Ventura SF Symbols now have a new automatic rendering mode. Often it equals to monochrome and sometimes to hierarchical. That's a great addition for sure. But how can one set the automatic rendering mode for their customs symbols ? I failed to find the answer in the documentation or the various WWDC sessions. Thank you !