Action sheet or alert to block user?

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Created Apr ’22

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I’ve an UIAlertController to allow blocking an user from my app, and another one to report them with a bunch of reasons.
However I can’t decide which UIAlertController.Style to use.
Report action contains a 5 reasons to report, plus the cancel action. If you choose the Other reason, you get a third alert with a text field to fill in the reason. Then there is the block alert with a simple Yes/No choice.
Report alert then/or Block alert both come from UIMenu actions in a navigation bar’s UIBarButtonItem.

Following the Apple human guidelines, I should:

Use an action sheet — not an alert — to offer choices related to an intentional action.

So it seems pretty clear that I should use the action sheet style for the first Report alert, as it’s intentional and contains more than 2 actions.
But then I have to use an alert style if the user uses the Other option and has to write their reason.
And what about the Block alert than comes next in any case or from a dedicated action in the UIMenu?

To sum up:

UIBarButtonItem -> UIMenu -> Report & Block UIActions -> 5 Report reasons / Yes or No for Block
Block handler can be independent, but it is also called if any report reason is selected
If Other report reason is selected, an alert with text field is initially shown to specify the reason

I’m confused, which style should I use for all 3 of them?

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Answer 1

Claude31 OP

Apr ’22

I'm also a bit confused on what you want to achieve.

Please explain in sequence what should occur and give a specific name to each alert so that we can understand what we are speaking about.

For some reason, you need to block user

--> What do you show exactly at this stage ?

How do you go to the Report alert ? By user choice ? Automatically ?

--> explain precisely what triggers the Report Alert
--> What choices or user actions here

Third alert is triggered if select "Other" button ?

Where is the UIMenu ?

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Answer 2

Claude31 OP

Apr ’22

Thanks, that's clear.

So it seems pretty clear that I should use the action sheet style for the first Report alert, as it’s intentional and contains more than 2 actions. But then I have to use an alert style if the user uses the Other option and has to write their reason.

Yes, Report alert should be action sheet.

Stacking alerts should be avoided.

Have you considered having the textField (to report other) inside this action sheet and allow user interaction with the textField only if user hit other ?

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Answer 3

Claude31 OP

Apr ’22

"Stacking alerts should be avoided"

It's just that as a user, immediately getting a new one alert after handling one is not very pleasant.

"Have you considered having the textField (to report other) inside this action sheet and allow user interaction with the textField only if user hit other ?" Is this even possible?

If I understand the question, yes it is possible. See example here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31922349/how-to-add-textfield-to-uialertcontroller-in-swift

If so, is it compliant to the guidelines?

I cannot see any reason it would not be.

Showing what the alerts sequence (as screenshots) could help we understand precisely what you want to do.

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Answer 4

Arainty OP

Apr ’22

Here is the full workflow: https://imgur.com/a/Z47rARa

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