Apple Inc.

Roberto Garcia

Justin N Wood

Imran A Chaudhri

Chanaka G Karunamuni

Freddy Allen Anzures

Wan Si Wan

Nicholas V King

Darin Benjamin Adler

Bethany Bongiorno

Lawrence Yuan Yang

Richard R Dellinger

Hoan K Pham

Nicholas Joseph Circosta

Pierre Jonathan De Filippis

Gokul P Thirumalai

Giancarlo Yerkes

Daniel Ben Pollack

Tiffany S Jon

Hyeonkuk Jeong

Yannick L Sierra

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Craig Michael Federighi

Xiaoyuan Tu

Yan Yang

Giulia Maria Pagallo

Anil K Kandangath

Scott Lopatin

Hsi-Jung Wu

Xiaosong Zhou

Jerome Rene Bellegarda

Joe S Abuan

Mathieu Ciet

Arvindh Krishnaswamy

Patrick L Coffman

Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill

Ting Chen

James O Normile

William McMillan Tyler

Thomas Icart

Benoit Chevallier-Mames

Imran Chaudhri, Iii

Chris Yoochang Chung

George R Dicker

Dazhong Zhang

Nirav Rajendra Patel

Haitao Guo

Berkat S Tung

Daamun Mohseni

Michael W Brandt

Woo-Ram Lee

Sam H Gharabally

Matthaeus Krenn

Douglas Scott Price

Kevin J Lindeman

Bhaskar P Sarma

Soin Shedlosky

Adele C Peterson

Eugene M Bistolas

Keith P Kowalczykowski

David Alex Carter

Kyle S Macomber

Patrick Robert Burns

Liang Qu

Ori Herrnstadt

Linden B Siahaan

Alexandre A Aybes

Gobind Johar

Stephen M Lottermoser

Sundararaman V Shiva

Oliver J Hunt

Ahmed M Bashir

Gavin B Thomson

Thomas Christopher Jansen

Andrew Yanowitz

Michael D Ford

Robert Y Loh

Van Hong

Chelsea J Leblanc

Raghav V Pisolkar

Ge Yan

Randall S Becker

Kevin Y He

Elliot Aaron Barer

Jonathon Sodos

Mitch Adler

Lilynaz Hashemi

David A Eldred

Adam Thomas Binsz

James A De Guerre

Jerome Rene Bellagarda

Michael Joel Brandt

Chelsea J LeBlanc

Lemont A Washington

Timothy Shaw

Pierre J Defilippis

Óscar Morales Vivo

Gokul Thirumala

Óscar Morales Vivó

David D Kuo

Techniques for live location sharing are described. A first mobile device and a second mobile device can communicate with one another using an IM program. The first mobile device can receive a user input to share a location of the first mobile device in the IM program. Sharing the location can include causing the second mobile device to display a location of the first mobile device in an IM program user interface on the second mobile device. Duration of sharing the location can be user-configurable. The second mobile device may or may not share a location of the second device for display in the IM program executing on the first mobile device.

Live location sharing

At an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display, display a message transcript, where the message transcript includes at least one message from at least a first user. Determine, based at least in-part on the at least one message, a plurality of suggested one or more characters. Display, on the touch-sensitive display, the plurality of suggested one or more characters. Detect an input on the touch-sensitive display. Determine whether the input represents user selection of one of the plurality of suggested one or more characters. Display the selected one of the plurality of suggested one or more characters in the message transcript. Send the selected one or more characters to the first user.

Canned answers in messages

A device implementing a system for providing information corresponding to a user in association with messaging includes a processor configured to receive, by a messaging application on the device, a message and associated metadata from a second device, the associated metadata comprising a record identifier of a data record stored on a server, the data record comprising identifying information corresponding to a user of the second device. The processor is further configured to send, to the server, a request for the data record, the request comprising the record identifier, and obtain, in response to the sending, the data record. The processor is further configured to display the identifying information of the user contained in the data record, together with content of the message in a user interface of the messaging application.

Providing user information in association with messaging

An electronic device, while displaying messaging user interface that includes a conversation transcript of a messaging session between a user of the electronic device and at least one other user, a plurality of electronic stickers, and a message-input area, detects a drag gesture that starts while a focus selector is at a first location in the messaging user interface that corresponds to an electronic sticker in the plurality of electronic stickers, and in response, moves the electronic sticker in the first direction in accordance with movement of the drag gesture. Upon termination of the drag gesture while the focus selector is at a second location in the messaging user interface, if the second location is within the conversation transcript, the electronic device places the electronic sticker in the conversation transcript at a location based on the second location, and otherwise ceases to display the electronic sticker.

Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for initiating a payment action in a messaging session

Some embodiments provide a method for initiating a video conference using a first mobile device. The method presents, during an audio call through a wireless communication network with a second device, a selectable user-interface (UI) item on the first mobile device for switching from the audio call to the video conference. The method receives a selection of the selectable UI item. The method initiates the video conference without terminating the audio call. The method terminates the audio call before allowing the first and second devices to present audio and video data exchanged through the video conference.

Establishing a video conference during a phone call

The subject disclosure provides systems and methods for sender verification for encrypted electronic messaging. The discloses systems and methods may facilitate reducing or preventing spam messages between electronic devices. An electronic device may determine, prior to sending an electronic message to another device with a first level of encryption that is higher than a second level of encryption, whether the electronic device is eligible to send the message with the first level of encryption. If an electronic device determines that it is ineligible to send the message with the first level of encryption to another electronic device, a first message from the electronic device to the other electronic device may be sent with the second level of encryption as part of an unencrypted or low encryption handshake between the devices.

Sender verification for encrypted electronic messaging

Aspects of subject technology provide systems and methods for generation and distribution of a stable identifier associated with multiple aliases of a user account. The stable identifier may be provided to various electronic devices by a server, responsive to requests associated with communications to those devices from one of the associated aliases. In this way, messaging applications can utilize the stable identifier to merge conversations from a single user having multiple aliases, and secure access to a secure device can be provided to an authorized user, even if the authorized user attempts access from an unauthorized account alias.

Conversation merging for electronic devices

A device implementing a system for sharing groups of files within a messaging application includes a processor configured to provide, within the messaging application, a user interface element for sending at least one file to a participant in an active message thread of the messaging application, the at least one file having been determined to be relevant to the participant. The processor is further configured to, responsive to receiving a selection of the user interface element: transmit, to a server, a request to store the at least one file in association with a shared storage area, and to transmit, via the messaging application, a message to the participant in the active message thread, the message comprising information for accessing the at least one file associated with the shared storage area.

Sharing content in a messaging application

A service for providing messaging extension apps can be an online store that can be browsed and searched for the apps. The store uses extension app identifiers which are related to app identifiers that are sent between devices in a conversation of messages so that a receiving device can, when it does not have the extension app installed to interact with received content, use the extension app identifier to download and install the required extension app. In one embodiment, the download and install can occur while the messaging app remains the foreground app, and the messaging app adds an icon of the newly installed extension app into a browsable tray in the UI of the messaging app.

Message extension app store

Data items such as files or database records associated with particular applications (such as messaging applications and other applications) can be stored in one or more remote locations, such as a cloud storage system, and synchronized with other devices. The remote storage can be configured such that each application executing on a client device can only view data items stored at the remote location to which the application has permission to access. An access manager on each client device enforces application specific access policies. Storage at the remote location can be secured for each application associated with a user or user account, for example, using isolated containers. The cloud storage of data can be anonymized and anonymous group data can be stored in the cloud storage.

Cloud messaging system

An electronic device displays a messaging user interface of a message application, including a conversation transcript of a messaging session between a user of the electronic device and at least one other user, and a first message region that includes a current version of a first message in the messaging session. The conversation transcript includes an indication that the current version of the first message is a revised version of the first message in the conversation transcript. In response to detecting an input that corresponds to a request to see versions of the first message, the electronic device displays a versions user interface that includes the current version of the first message and one or more prior versions of the first message.

Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for messaging

An electronic device displays a messaging user interface of a messaging application, including a conversation transcript of a messaging session between a user of the electronic device and another user, a message-input area, and a representation corresponding to the other user. In response to detecting a first user input corresponding to the representation of the other user, a menu is displayed that contains an activatable menu item for initiating a payment action with the other user. While displaying the menu, in response to detecting a second user input corresponding to the activatable menu item for initiating a payment action with the first other user, a user interface configured to initiate sending of payment to, and/or requesting payment from, the first other user is displayed.

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Roberto Garcia