Apple Inc.

Ron Huang

Imran A Chaudhri

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill

Patrick L Coffman

Christopher Daryl Soli

Matthew Elliot Shepherd

Stephen J Rhee

Julien F Freudiger

Guy Leslie Tribble

Christopher K Thomas

Matthew H Gamble

James R Montgomerie

Jessica Aranda

Andrey Pokrovskiy

Katherine B Skinner

Caroline Cranfill

John Wilander

Glen S Low

Ansh Shukla

Anant Jain

Kyle Martin Sluder

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

A user having multiple electronic devices may receive notifications at each of the devices. When it is determined that a first device is in an active state and that a notification has been viewed on that device, an indication that the notification has been viewed may be communicated by the first device to a synchronization server. It may then be determined whether the viewed notification is also present on one or more of the user's other devices. Based on the determination, an indication that the notification has been viewed may be sent from the synchronization server to each of the user's devices on which the notification is present. Upon receipt of the indication from the synchronization server, the viewed notification may be removed from each of the devices, thereby avoiding a redundant display of the notification on multiple devices.

Avoiding a redundant display of a notification on multiple user devices

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