sindresorhus
Settings sheet title style
People seem undecided on whether to use a normal or large navigation bar title for a settings sheet.
Opinions? Include your reasoning.
Vote (using reactions on the issue):
🚀 - Normal title 🎉 - Large title
This is what Settings does, and I consider it to be the authoritative source for how table views should be styled :P
@saagarjha That's not the same. The title there is the name of the app, not the current view. I have looked at a lot of Apple's apps, and most of them use inline style, but a few use large titles.
From the HIG:
Use a large title when you want to provide extra emphasis on context. Large titles should never compete with content, but in some apps, the big, bold text of a large title can help orient people as they browse and search. In a tabbed layout, for example, large titles can help clarify the active tab and indicate when people have scrolled to the top. Phone uses this approach, while Music uses large titles to differentiate content areas like albums, artists, playlists, and radio.
I feel like the user doesn't need the emphasis as the context is already clear since the just tapped the cog to open the settings sheet. So I'm personally leaning towards normal title.
Large titles should never compete with content, but in some apps, the big, bold text of a large title can help orient people as they browse and search.
This is the part I am going off of, and in general when you have a new navigation controller come up you make the root controller have a large title and then children can go with inline titles. The purpose of the large title is emphasize the new context when a switch occurs (which happens on modal transition as well as when switching between tabs). So assuming that you're switching some page in your app to your app's settings heirarchy, I think this additional context is a good thing. (If this is settings for a specific item, like you tapped and held on something, then I would probably agree with using a normal title.)
System apps:
Small title:
- App Store account sheet
- App Store Connect settings sheet
- Books account sheet
- Feedback Assistant settings sheet
- iMovie project settings modal
- Keynote/Numbers/Pages file settings (“More”) modal
- Maps info/settings half-sheet (which is not consistent with the Find My half sheet)
- Music account sheet (briefly shows as a large title before the content loads)
- Phone voicemail greeting sheet (also has an even smaller secondary title)
- Podcast settings and app-wide notification settings sheets
- Reminder list settings sheet
- iTunes Remote settings sheet
- Research profile sheet (done button on left, edit button on right)
- Safari website settings sheet
- Shortcut list and shortcut settings sheet
Large title:
- Apple Store account sheet
- Contacts groups sheet
- TestFlight settings sheet
No title:
- Messages name/photo sheet
- Apple Support account sheet
- Wallet card settings sheet
Half sheet:
- Maps info/settings
- Find My me tab
Share sheet:
- Notes folder/note settings (not a perfect match for the system share sheet)
- Photos album settings
Happy to revise this based on a more specific definition of “settings sheet.”
I always thought that the first page (root) is allowed to be large title, once you go to details, you use normal title.
