Action sheets, alerts, and modal views are temporary views that appear when something requires a user’s attention or when additional choices or functionality need to be offered.

Although action sheets and alerts can display custom content, only a few modifications can be made to their appearance. For this reason, you have little to do to make sure these elements look good in your iOS 7 app.

Because a modal view is just a view that’s presented modally, you may want to redesign the modal views in your app so that they look appropriate in iOS 7.

Action Sheet

An action sheet displays a set of choices related to a task the user initiates.

In iOS 7, by default an action sheet has a translucent background and contains borderless buttons.

iOS 7

iOS 6

The UIActionSheetStyle constants are unused in iOS 7. On an iOS 7 device, system-provided UI—such as an action sheet—uses the iOS 7 appearance regardless of the appearance of the currently running app.

Note that a potentially dangerous option in an action sheet—specified by the destructiveButtonTitle parameter in initWithTitle:delegate:cancelButtonTitle:destructiveButtonTitle:otherButtonTitles:—automatically uses the system red color.

Alert

An alert gives people important information that affects their use of the app or the device.

The appearance of an alert has changed in iOS 7.

iOS 7

iOS 6

On an iOS 7 device, system-provided UI—such as an alert—uses the iOS 7 appearance regardless of the appearance of the currently running app.

If you supply a third button for an alert, this button is displayed above the two primary buttons at the bottom of the alert.

Modal View

A modal view—that is, a view presented modally—provides self-contained functionality in the context of the current task or workflow.

System-provided modal views use the same appearances as other, similar views in iOS 7.

iOS 7

iOS 6

In iOS 7, you can use a custom animator object and an optional interactive controller object to manage modal presentation. To learn more about custom view controller transitions, see UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning Protocol Reference and UIViewControllerInteractiveTransitioning Protocol Reference.