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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2015
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Jae Woo Chang, San Jose, CA (US);
Ryan David Shelby, Mountain View, CA (US);
Megan M. Frost, Cupertino, CA (US);
Peter Roman, Los Altos, CA (US);
Marcel Van Os, San Francisco, CA (US);
Julie Fortuna, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cedric Bray, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Simon Capern, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure generally relates to browsing and searching content on an electronic device. An electronic device displays a first user interface including a search affordance and receives an input corresponding to selection of the search affordance. In response, the device displays a plurality of category affordances, including a first category affordance associated with a first category and a second category affordance associated with a second category. The device further receives an input corresponding to selection of the first category affordance and, in response, displays a representation of one or more information items that correspond to the first category and replaces at least a subset of the category affordances with a plurality of subcategory affordances that correspond to the first category. The plurality of subcategory affordances includes a first subcategory affordance associated with a first subcategory and a second subcategory affordance associated with a second subcategory.