Apple Inc.

Glen S Low

Patrick L Coffman

Christopher Daryl Soli

Matthew Elliot Shepherd

Stephen J Rhee

Julien F Freudiger

Guy Leslie Tribble

Bartosz Ciechanowski

Christopher K Thomas

Matthew H Gamble

James R Montgomerie

Stephen M Lottermoser

Jessica Aranda

Andrey Pokrovskiy

Katherine B Skinner

Ron Huang

Karthik Sudhir

Lance T Parker

John Wilander

Ansh Shukla

Devin O Clary

Anant Jain

Kyle Martin Sluder

Ron Haung

Matthew Hansen Gamble

The subject disclosure provides systems and methods for providing privacy-preserving social attribution for electronic devices. For example, when information is received from a contact of a user at the user's electronic device, various applications at the electronic device may later display the received information. It can be desirable to attribute the displayed information received from the contact to that contact, without exposing identifying information of the contact to the displaying application. Aspects of the subject technology include a system process that generates an image including contact information, that can be rendered in a user interface of an application, without providing the image or the contact information to the application.

Privacy-preserving sharing attribution for electronic devices

An access control system is provided to prevent the surreptitious granting of access to privacy related functionality on an electronic device. Software-based events to grant access to device functionality can be validated by confirming that the software event corresponds with a hardware input event. This validation prevents the spoofing of a user interface input that may be used to fraudulently grant access to specific functionality.

Authenticated interface element interactions

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Los Gatos, CA, United States of America

Glen S Low