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title: "Widgets, Live Activities, and Controls"
framework: appintents
role: collectionGroup
role_heading: API Collection
path: appintents/widgets-live-activities-and-controls
---

# Widgets, Live Activities, and Controls

Implement interactive widgets, controls, watch complications, and Live Activities using app intents.

## Overview

Overview You can make widgets, Live Activities, and other experiences interactive by adding buttons and toggles to their interfaces. When someone interacts with one of those controls, you respond by creating an app intent. Use those app intents to perform the associated actions in your app.

## Topics

### Essentials

- [Adding interactivity to widgets and Live Activities](widgetkit/adding-interactivity-to-widgets-and-live-activities.md)
- [Developing a WidgetKit strategy](widgetkit/developing-a-widgetkit-strategy.md)

### Controls (WidgetKit)

- [Controls](widgetkit/controls-collection.md)
- [ControlConfigurationIntent](appintents/controlconfigurationintent.md)

### Live Activities

- [Live Activities](widgetkit/liveactivities-collection.md)
- [LiveActivityIntent](appintents/liveactivityintent.md)
- [ActivityKit](activitykit.md)

### Widgets

- [Increasing the visibility of widgets in Smart Stacks](widgetkit/widget-suggestions-in-smart-stacks.md)
- [Migrating widgets from SiriKit Intents to App Intents](widgetkit/migrating-from-sirikit-intents-to-app-intents.md)
- [WidgetConfigurationIntent](appintents/widgetconfigurationintent.md)
- [WidgetKit](widgetkit.md)

## See Also

### Feature integration

- [Adopting App Intents to support system experiences](appintents/adopting-app-intents-to-support-system-experiences.md)
- [Apple Intelligence and Siri AI](appintents/apple-intelligence-and-siri-ai.md)
- [Spotlight integration](appintents/spotlight.md)
- [App Shortcuts](appintents/app-shortcuts.md)
- [Hardware interactions](appintents/hardware-interactions.md)
- [Focus](appintents/focus.md)
- [Visual intelligence](appintents/visual-intelligence.md)