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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018
Filed:
May. 08, 2015
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Martin J. Murrett, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Todd Schomer, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Christopher Douglas Weeldreyer, San Carlos, CA (US);
James Vernon Van Boxtel, Ridgefield, WA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device displays text of an electronic document on a display; displays an insertion marker at a first position in the text of the electronic document; detects a first horizontal gesture on a touch-sensitive surface; in response to a determination that the first horizontal gesture satisfies a first set of one or more predefined conditions: translates the electronic document on the display in accordance with a direction of the first horizontal gesture, and maintains the insertion marker at the first position in the text; and, in response to a determination that the first horizontal gesture satisfies a second set of one or more predefined conditions, moves the insertion marker by one character in the text from the first position to a second position in the text in accordance with the direction of the first horizontal gesture.