Apple Inc.

Nikrouz Ghotbi

Benjamin S Phipps

Xinyuan Huang

Bryan Hansen

Jaireh Tecarro

Yifeng Gui

Mahesh Ramaray Shanbhag

Eugene Ray

Sumit Wattal

Trungtin Tran

Robert A Walker

Brandon J Newendorp

Lun Cui

Jared A Crawford

Marek Rastislav Telgarsky

Naresh Kumar Chinnathambi Kailasam

Kirill Novitchenko

Kyle W Lu

Ryan D Webber

Briana C Chapman

Kevin Siu Wai Li

Tyler C Leppek

Sue Wen Chiao

Matias Hernan Sulzberger

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Richard R Dellinger

Craig Michael Federighi

Pedro Mari

Ieyuki Kawashima

James Nicholas Jones

Oluwatomiwa B Alabi

Robert Edward Burton

James E Palmer

Rebecca P Fish

Neal S Ellis

Andrea Valentina Simes

Patchaya Beam Seilaudom

Thomas R Fazio

Aaron Musengo

Tyler McClay Smith

Robert A Walker, Ii

This relates to intelligent automated assistants and, more specifically, to intelligent context sharing and task performance among a collection of devices with intelligent automated assistant capabilities. An example method includes, at a first electronic device participating in a context-sharing group associated with a first location: receiving a user voice input; receiving, from a context collector, an aggregate context of the context-sharing group; providing at least a portion of the aggregate context and data corresponding to the user voice input to a remote device; receiving, from the remote device, a command to perform one or more tasks and a device identifier corresponding to a second electronic device; and transmitting the command to the second electronic device based on the device identifier, wherein the command causes the second electronic device to perform the one or more tasks.

Digital assistant hardware abstraction

An example process includes at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory: while the electronic device is in a locked state and in communication with an external accessory device: receiving a natural language input; determining whether the natural language input corresponds to a secure task request; in accordance with a determination that the natural language input corresponds to a secure task request: determining whether one or more states of the external accessory device satisfy a set of authentication criteria; and in accordance with a determination that the one or more states of the external accessory device satisfy the set of authentication criteria: initiating, by the electronic device, a secure task corresponding to the natural language input; and providing an output indicative of the initiated secure task.

Accessory device based authentication for digital assistant requests

Systems and processes for providing personalized suggestions indicating that a task may be performed using a digital assistant of an electronic device are provided. An example method includes, at an electronic device with a display, receiving context data associated with the electronic device; determining, based on the context data, a task that may be performed by a digital assistant of the electronic device in response to a natural-language expression; determining, based on the context data, whether suggestion criteria associated with the determined task are satisfied; and in accordance with a determination that the suggestion criteria are satisfied, providing a suggestion indicating that the determined task may be performed using the digital assistant of the electronic device.

Voice assistant discoverability through on-device targeting and personalization

An example process includes: while displaying a user interface different from a digital assistant user interface, receiving a user input; in accordance with a determination that the user input satisfies a criterion for initiating a digital assistant: displaying, over the user interface, the digital assistant user interface, the digital assistant user interface including: a digital assistant indicator displayed at a first portion of the display; and a response affordance displayed at a second portion of the display, where: a portion of the user interface remains visible at a third portion of the display; and the third portion is between the first portion and the second portion.

Digital assistant user interfaces and response modes

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