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Welcome
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Copyright

Changes to the guide

This version of the Apple Style Guide includes the changes listed below.

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Changes to the March 2024 version

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Action button; anti-replay value; APNs; Apple Pencil hover; Apple Trade In; Apple Vision Pro; Apps View; Assistive Access; Audio Straps; battery level; battery life, battery lifespan; cellular (n., adj.); charge cable; Compass Waypoints; cover glass; Crash Detection; Environment; Environments View; EyeSight; Fit Dial; frame; Guest User; Guided Access; head band; headset; Home View; iCloud+; iCloud Shared Photo Library; lifespan; Light Seal; Light Seal Cushion; Live Activities; look; Mac Virtual Display; M-series chips; nonce; optical inserts; Optic ID; People View; Persona; Private Browsing; push notification; ray tracing (n.), ray-tracing (adj.), ray-traced (adj.); Ring/Silent switch; seasons; spatial photo, spatial video; Stage Manager; top button; touch; True Tone flash; Türkiye; up-to-date (adj.), up to date (pred. adj.); view; virtual keyboard; visionOS; window bar; ZEISS Optical Inserts

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Airplane Mode; AirPods; Apple Pencil; Apple TV; Apple Watch; App Store; capitalization; desktop computer; Digital Crown; disable (v.), disabled (adj.); display (n.); drag; Fall Detection; gestures; iPad; iPhone; laptop; Mac; notebook computer; pinch (v.); portable computer; product names; RAW; rotate; screen; side button; Spatial Audio; swipe (n., v.); system on a chip (n.), system-on-chip (adj.); tap (n., v.); via; window

Deleted entries

Camera Roll; display sleep

Changes to the October 2022 version

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Dynamic Island; Focus filters; settings, Settings; System Settings

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Input menu; Login Items; Low Power Mode; passkey; Power Reserve mode; preferences; Startup Disk; System Preferences

Changes to the July 2022 version

Changes to the June 2021 version

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accessibility; AirDrop; Apple Fitness+; Apple M1 chip; Apple News; Apple News+; Apple services; Apple silicon; Apple T2 Security Chip; App Library; AssistiveTouch; Back button; black box/white box (n., adj.); black hat/white hat; black/white; blind, low vision; closed captions (n.), closed captioning (n., adj.), closed-captioned (adj.); color blind, color blindness; colored; deafblind, Deafblind; deaf or hard of hearing, Deaf; disability; dummy; Forward button; grandfathered, grandfathered in; Guides; handicapped; hearing impaired; impairment; information card; kill; livestream (n., v.), livestreaming (n.); man-in-the-middle attack; master; master branch; master-detail (adj.); mate; rotor; rule of thumb; sanity check, sanity test; SDH; sighted; Smart Stack; Spatial Audio; stream (n., v.), streaming (n., adj.); surround sound (n., adj.); Today View; visually impaired; wheelchair user; Writing inclusively

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Apple Books; Apple logo; Apple Music; Apple Pay; Apple TV+; Apple Watch; badge (n.); blacklist/whitelist (n., v.); button; disable (v.), disabled (adj.); disclosure arrow; disclosure button; Dolby formats; iPhone; left arrow; Mac; pronouns; right arrow; Spotlight; submenus; voiceover, VoiceOver; widget; window controls; zoom, Zoom

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banner (replaced by information card); Graphite appearance; submenu indicator; zoom button

Changes to the July 2020 version

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action sheet; Apple Diagnostics; Apple Original; Apple TV+; Asia Pacific (n., adj.); Black (adj.); blacklist/whitelist (n., v.); CarPlay; device; HDR (n., adj.); high dynamic range (n.), high-dynamic-range (adj.); HomePod; LCI; liquid contact indicator; logic board; master/slave; Medical ID; onsite; product; recovery mode (n., adj.); safe mode; SDR (n., adj.); share sheet; slave; smart TV; standard dynamic range (n.), standard-dynamic-range (adj.); streaming device, streaming player; whitelist; wide color gamut (n.), wide-color-gamut (adj.)

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computer; drag and drop (n., v.), drag-and-drop (adj.); iPod; italics (n.), italic (adj.); let; main logic board; mobile device; Picture in Picture (n., adj.), picture-in-picture (adj.); pointer; pop-up (n., adj.); quotation marks; screen; sheet; sync, synced, syncing; system; tooltip; type (v.); Wi-Fi

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dock adapter; Hold switch

Changes to the December 2019 version

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Catalyst; clamshell; country; EU; Files app; gallery view; Gallery View button; hover (v.); Hover Text; inclusive language; iPadOS; iPadOS device; lid; long press (n.), long-press (adj.); Look Around; Macao; Mac Catalyst; Managed Apple ID; pronouns; Sidecar; Sign in with Apple; whether

Changed entries

Apple now lowercases internet, resulting in changes to internet, Internet and throughout the guide; references to the iTunes app were deleted throughout the guide; 3D Touch; abbreviations and acronyms (added new bullet, “Articles”); Apple Remote; Apple Store; Apple TV Remote; calendar; cross-references; Dark Mode; download (n., v.), downloadable (adj.); Downtime; FileMaker (was previously FileMaker, Inc.); GIF (deleted pronunciation advice); help; iCloud; iCloud Drive; iOS; iOS device (in addition, references to iOS device were edited throughout the guide); Menu button; Personal Hotspot, Instant Hotspot; press; push; Raise to Speak; Siri Remote; they, their, them; touch and hold; U.S.

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Cover Flow; Cover Flow button; fair language (replaced by inclusive language); Glances; help book; Mac Help; Peek and Pop; universal app

Changes to the February 2019 version

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Activity rings; Animoji; APFS; Apple Books; Apple File System; Apple Pencil; Auto Exposure; Auto Focus; Books; Book Store; Countries (addition to “International Style”); Dark Mode; Emergency SOS; Face ID; Fall Detection; Haptic Touch; iBooks; iCloud Photos; kilogram-force centimeter (addition to Names and unit symbols for units of measure); like, love; Memoji; Raise to Speak; Raise to Wake; Shared Albums; SIM; Siri Shortcuts; Siri Suggestions; Tap to Wake; TrueDepth; True Tone; Voice Memos; Walkie-Talkie; watchlist

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Apple menu; App Store; dialog; Do Not Disturb; earlier, later; highlight (v.); iCloud; iCloud Photo Library; iCloud Photo Sharing; iMovie; iPhone; latest; most recent; movie; single sign-on (n., adj.); social media (pl. n., adj.); Stacks; Touch ID; update; upgrade; version number

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