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Design Getting Started With Human Interface Guidelines Designing for iOS The First Screen

Posted by Kevin Deganhart
Kevin Deganhart
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Non-standard share menu

Is there a reason for using this custom popout share menu vs the standard IOS share menu?

1 Answer

Anwar Montasir
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Anwar Montasir
Treehouse Teacher
Anwar Montasir
Anwar Montasir
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Kevin, that's a really good question. I'm trying to remember back to how I made that decision.

There might be situations where keeping the sharing experience consistent with your own brand is more important than offering users the familiar iOS menu. But you're right that the Sharing and Action extension, detailed in the Human Interface Guidelines here

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/ios/extensions/sharing-and-actions/

would in many cases make the most sense. I'll keep that in mind if an opportunity comes up to rework this course.