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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2015
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Nicole M. Wells, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andrew B. Cato, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Matthew H. Gamble, San Francisco, CA (US);
Craig M. Federighi, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Wayne C. Westerman, San Francisco, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is performed at an electronic device with a display, a touch-sensitive surface, and one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts. The method includes displaying, on the display, a user interface for an application; detecting an edge input that includes detecting a change in a characteristic intensity of a contact proximate to an edge of the touch-sensitive surface; and, in response to detecting the edge input: in accordance with a determination that the edge input meets system-gesture criteria, performing an operation that is independent of the application, wherein: the system-gesture criteria include intensity criteria; the system-gesture criteria include a location criterion that is met when the intensity criteria for the contact are met while the contact is within a first region relative to the touch-sensitive surface; and the first region relative to the touch-sensitive surface is determined based on one or more characteristics of the contact.