A companion you can read at a glance

In either phone, tap the mic, a suggestion or the keyboard. After a change, try Undo. In B, drag the sheet up or tap the list button.

• The next event leads

  One wide card with a countdown sits on top. Tasks, inbox and tonight shrink to tiles, so the companion gets the space they free up.

• Talk or type

  The mic sits in the thumb zone and the keyboard is one tap away, for meetings, trains and people who would rather not speak. A typed request skips Listening.

• Suggestions on an idle screen

  Two chips built from the day show what the companion can do, so a new user never starts at a blank mic.

• Thinking names the step

  A short line like “Checking Sam’s evening” turns a 1.5 s wait into visible progress.

• Changes can be undone

  When the companion edits the calendar or contacts someone, the reply says so and offers Undo for 8 seconds.

• Clear turns

  Your words appear by the mic, the companion’s above its head. Screen readers hear each reply once, as a whole sentence.

• Liquid Glass for controls, material for content

  The dock, suggestions and the state pill float on Liquid Glass. Cards that carry information sit on the regular material, so text stays readable over the scene. Inside the sheet, buttons use a plain fill, so glass never stacks on glass.

• System text styles

  Body 17, Headline 17, Subheadline 15, Footnote 13 and Title 2 for numbers. Every label is a text style, so it scales with Dynamic Type.

• Real iPhone geometry

  Drawn at 393 × 852 pt, the iPhone 16 screen, with 59 pt and 34 pt safe areas, 16 pt margins and 44 pt minimum touch targets.

• A native sheet

  The day uses two detents and a drag indicator. At the small detent it floats 8 pt from the edges with corners concentric to the screen, then goes edge to edge at the large one.

• System colors and SF Symbols

  Text uses label and secondaryLabel. States use systemOrange, systemTeal, systemPurple and systemPink, so Dark Mode and Increase Contrast adapt without extra work. Every icon maps to an SF Symbol.

• Settings people already chose

  Dark Mode, Reduce Transparency and Reduce Motion change both phones live. Try the switches above the phones.

Body text needs 4.5:1 contrast with whatever sits behind it. Over the window and shelves that changes from pixel to pixel, so every card that carries information sits on the regular material: a 30 pt blur under a 66% fill that turns solid with Reduce Transparency. Controls use the clearer Liquid Glass because they hold one symbol or a short label. The companion stays the only thing that sits on the scene directly.

• Do the companion characters already exist, as 3D assets or renders?

  If not, I’d write the specs for a 3D or motion artist and use AI tools for early concepts.

• How will the companion render: Rive, Lottie, Unity or video loops?

  It sets how states blend. Rive can blend live, while video loops need planned transition clips.

• Native iOS and Android, Flutter or React Native?

  Blur and translucency cost different amounts on each stack, so the widget spec should match it.

• What do people open the app for most often?

  Tasks and calendar point to A. Talking to the companion points to B.