Apple Inc.

Erik Lindholm

Thomas M Alsina

Anton M Davydov

Dennis S Park

Drew Rocky Domm

Benjamin Thomas Christie

Arvind S Shenoy

Michael Charles Evashevski

Matthew Joseph Cielak

Tito Lloyd Balsamo

Fredric R Vinna

Uli M Schöberl

Jeff Tan-Ang

Agnes Won

Tiffany Shelton Reese

Daniel Cartoon

Mark Hilary Levy

William D Carpenter

Christine Elizabeth Tran

Paul C Irvine

Christopher J Ellingford

Fernando Albuquerque

Adam Silver

Justin Gaussoin

Priyo Mustafi

Bekir B Dundar

Denise L Chen

Generating a customized playlist may include identifying a user account for which a playlist is to be generated, where the user account is associated with a user listening history, a taste profile, and a social profile, identifying one or more friend accounts linked to the user account based on the social profile, obtaining an indication of a plurality of songs associated with one or more of the friend accounts, determining a listening history for the one or more plurality of songs based on the friend accounts, obtaining a subset of the plurality of songs based on the listening history of the plurality of songs, and generating a playlist from the subset of the plurality of songs.

Generating a customized social-driven playlist

In some embodiments, an electronic device displays time-synced lyrics of content items playing on an electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays representations of content items in a playback sequence on an electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device shares an item of content with another user account of another electronic device.

User interfaces for content applications

In some embodiments, an electronic device presents representations of items of content available for playback on the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents selectable options for playing an item of content in accordance with the manners in which the item of content is available to be played on the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents representations of episodes in a series of episodic content. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents an enhanced preview of content. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents a control panel. In some embodiments, an electronic device switches the active user profile of a device. In some embodiments, an electronic device enters into a picture-in-picture mode.

User interfaces for viewing and accessing content on an electronic device

In some embodiments, a first electronic device shares a portion of a content item corresponding to a respective portion of lyrics for the content item with a second electronic device. In some embodiments, a system facilitates securely sharing a portion of a content item between two devices. In some embodiments, an electronic device generates a server address for accessing a portion of a content item. In some embodiments, a uniform resource locator includes an identification of content, an indication of a first subset of the content, and authentication data.

User interfaces and associated systems and processes for sharing portions of content items

In some embodiments, an electronic device presents information about, and facilitates consumption of, content in a content delivery application, including utilizing content consumption activities of the user's friends to do so. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates presentation of a friends content mix corresponding to content selected based on content consumption activity of one or more friends of a user of the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates presentation of a plurality of content items included in the friends content mix that includes a representation of a first content item of the plurality of content items displayed in association with a representation of a first friend, of the one or more friends of the user, that is associated with the first content item.

User interfaces for recommending and consuming content on an electronic device

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Erik Lindholm