Apple Inc.

Leland J Jansen

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Patrick L Coffman

Dylan Ross Edwards

Morgan H Winer

Marcos Alonso

Toby C Paterson

Patrick W Demasco

Hannah Morgan

Sergei Klimov

The present disclosure generally relates to selecting text. An example method includes displaying, a focus indicator at a first location; while displaying the focus indicator, detecting a gesture at a first touch location that corresponds to the focus indicator; while detecting the gesture, detecting movement of the gesture to a second touch location; in response to detecting movement of the gesture to the second touch location: in accordance with a determination that the second touch location is in a first direction, moving the focus indicator to a second indicator location; in accordance with a determination that the second touch location is in a second direction, moving the focus indicator to a third location; while the focus indicator is at a fourth location, detecting liftoff of the gesture; and in response to detecting the liftoff, maintaining display of the focus indicator at the fourth location.

Techniques for selecting text

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Redmond, WA, United States of America

Leland J Jansen