tvos-design-guidelines

tvOS design guidelines for focus-based navigation require clearly visible focus states and predictable focus movement to ensure remote-first interactions remain intuitive for living-room viewing on Apple TV.

Design Siri Remote interactions for Apple TV apps by using minimal gestures and providing clear feedback, ensuring users can easily navigate focus-driven interfaces and media playback transport controls from a distance.

10-foot UI constraints on tvOS require high-contrast typography and strict safe-area awareness to keep text legible and interactive elements visible when viewed from across the room on Apple TV.

Provision Top Shelf content for tvOS by applying layout strategies that showcase media and enable deep-linking directly into specific content within your Apple TV app.

Standard tab bar navigation patterns for tvOS apps must follow specific conventions to support focus-driven movement and ensure seamless Siri Remote interaction across top-level content categories.

Unpredictable focus movement in tvOS apps usually stems from not following focus-driven navigation rules, which require clearly defined focus states and layout constraints that map cleanly to Siri Remote gestures.