Apple Inc.

Cameron Burgess

James Nicholas Jones

Michael R Sumner

Pedro Mari

Trungtin Tran

Ari Weinstein

Neal S Ellis

Alan C Dye

Eric Lance Wilson

Gokcen Cilingir

Pallavika Ramaswamy

Lynn I Streja

Rishab Mehra

Ross A Freeman

Mert Dumenci

Ilkyu Lee

Ramon Gilabert Llop

Jamie L Myrold

Michael A Gorbach

Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated digital assistant on an electronic device are provided. In particular, this paper describes the automatic registration of voice-activated shortcuts for a particular application at a vocabulary engine associated with the intelligent automated digital assistant. In some embodiments the automatic registration can be performed during installation or update of an application. Automatic registration can also be initiated after entry of particular types of data into the application or a determination that a particular feature of the application is being commonly used.

Voice-activated shortcut registration

Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. Upon receiving a user input requesting that a digital assistant initiate a task, performance of the task is initiated, and a task response is provided. If the digital assistant determines that task is associated with a first user interface, such as a non-digital assistant-specific user interface, the task response is provided using the first user interface.

Digital assistant integration with system interface

Systems and processes for providing and updating user interfaces for search functions are provided. An example process includes, at a computer system including a touch sensitive display and one or more input devices: receiving, via the one or more input devices, a request to display a user interface; in response to receiving the request to display the user interface, displaying, via the touch sensitive display, the user interface including an affordance including an indication of a number of pages of the user interface; and while displaying the user interface: detecting an occurrence of a predetermined condition; and in response to detecting the occurrence of the predetermined conditions, updating the affordance to include an indication of a search function.

Search operations in various user interfaces

This relates generally to intelligent automated assistants and, more specifically, to provide intelligent contextual action predictions by the intelligent automated assistants. An example method includes, at an electronic device displaying a content to a user, receiving a user input on a display area of the displayed content, determining a content type associated with a content object of the displayed content in response to receiving the user input, extracting one or more data items from the determined content type, determining one or more action types of each of the one or more data items and one or more action parameters for the each of the action types, determining one or more suggestive actions based on the determined one or more actions types; and presenting, to the user, at least one suggestive action from the one or more suggestive actions.

Contextual action predictions

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