Ask

The home of an assistant: a two-tone greeting, a briefing block with the day's figures, suggested prompts as chips and PromptComposer riding the bottom edge. The composer's field grows with a spring up to maxLines, attachment chips slide in above it, and the trailing button follows the state: a mic when there is nothing to send, a send button that pops in when there is, and a stop button that morphs from it while generating. Hold the mic and a recording pill with a live waveform and a timer grows out of it; release to finish. Tap the mic to latch recording instead. Glass on iOS 26 with a Material fallback, or a solid surface when you pass one.

Notes

• States: empty, typing, attaching (chips, no text), recording, generating. Send is enabled in typing and attaching; the field stays editable while generating.
• The mic is one DragGesture(minimumDistance: 0): a release before 280 ms toggles the latch, a hold past it records until the finger lifts. The mic stays under the finger throughout so the gesture is never cancelled.
• recordingLevel drives the pill's waveform; without it the bars idle at a low amplitude. The timer rolls with numericText.
• Put it in .safeAreaInset(edge: .bottom) so it rides the keyboard; tapping the surface focuses the field.
• Haptics: rigid impact when recording starts or stops, soft impact on send, selection when a chip is added or removed. Reduce Motion shortens every spring; Reduce Transparency uses an opaque surface.
• On the screen, a suggestion fills the field instead of sending, so the question can be edited first. The answer streams into a card stacked above the composer in the same inset, so it never hides behind the keyboard; Stop keeps the partial answer with a Retry.
• The briefing is a solid lime block with glow rings cropped at its corner; the rail of suggestions scrolls both rows together and crops at the trailing edge.
• PromptComposerExample at the end of PromptComposer.swift is the Ask screen from the preview.