Apple Inc.

Patrick W Demasco

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Patrick L Coffman

Dylan Ross Edwards

Stephen J Rhee

Julien F Freudiger

Guy Leslie Tribble

Morgan H Winer

Karan Misra

Jessica Aranda

Marcos Alonso

Toby C Paterson

Hannah Morgan

Zeheng Chen

Leland J Jansen

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

Private and secure autocomplete suggestions are enabled based on a user contacts database, even when an application has not been granted access to the user contacts database. A keyboard process can receive and display suggestions based on input provided via the keyboard. The suggestions are generated based on a contacts database of a user. The suggestions are generated without exposing the contacts database to the application. Suggestions are then displayed to the user without exposing the suggestions to the application. Once a suggestion is selected by a user, the selected suggestion is provided to the application for insertion into a text field.

Contacts autocomplete keyboard

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Patrick W Demasco