Apple Inc.

Benjamin Biron

Kelsey Yukio Ho

Peter D Anton

Anthony Joseph Guetta

Myra Mary Haggerty

Paul William Chinn

Roberto G Yepez

Ronnie G Misra

Andrew B Cato

Christopher K Thomas

Jonathan E Drummond

Curtis Rothert

Weijie Zhang

Kyle C Brogle

Robert William Mayor

Grant R Paul

Brent Michael Ledvina

Nicole M Wells

Jiaying Deng

Colin Christopher Terndrup

Eric J Blumberg

Tomislav Suchan

Naresh Kumar Chinnathanbi Kailasam

The present disclosure generally relates to enrolling a biometric feature for use with a peripheral device. While a computer system is connected to an external device, the computer system receives a first request to enroll a biometric feature. In response to receiving the request and in accordance with a determination that the request satisfies a first set of one or more criteria, the computer system displays a user interface object prompting a user to provide an authorization input to one or more input devices physically connected to the computer system. While displaying the first user interface object, the computer system receives user input. In response to receiving the user input and in accordance with a determination that the user input includes the authentication input, the computer system initiates a process to enroll the biometric feature using a biometric sensor that is integrated with the external device.

User interface for enrolling a biometric feature

The present disclosure generally relates to methods and user interfaces for authentication, including providing and controlling authentication at a computer system using an external device in accordance with some embodiments.

Implementation of biometric authentication

In an embodiment, a device may include an attention detection service. The attention detection service may monitor various peripheral devices in the device for indications that a user is paying attention to the device. Various clients may register for notification of attention detection and attention lost (attention no longer detected) events, or may poll the service for the events. If a user is not paying attention to the device, it may be possible to take various actions to permit reduced energy consumption.

Attention detection service

An orientation of an application user interface (e.g., text and/or content) on a display of a device may be determined by an orientation of the device relative to gravity. In situations where the orientation of the device relative to gravity does not provide a confident or accurate orientation for the application user interface, orientation of the application user interface may be determined from face orientation data. Face orientation data may be obtained from a face detection process operating on images of the user captured during a facial recognition process or during an attention detection process.

Using face detection to update user interface orientation

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Benjamin Biron