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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Imran A. Chaudhri, San Francisco, CA (US);
Freddy A. Anzures, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard R. Dellinger, San Jose, CA (US);
Chanaka G. Karunamuni, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nicholas V. King, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hoan Pham, San Jose, CA (US);
Wan Si Wan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Darin B. Adler, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Justin N. Wood, Los Altos, CA (US);
Roberto Garcia, Cupertino, CA (US);
Soin Shedlosky, San Jose, CA (US);
Bethany Bongiorno, San Francisco, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
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 at least one other user, and an application affordance. While displaying the messaging user interface, the device detects an input that activates the application affordance. In response to detecting the input that activates the application affordance, the device concurrently displays a launch icon for an application store and a plurality of launch icons for interactive applications. The device detects an input that activates the launch icon for the application store; in response to detecting the input that activates the launch icon for the application store: the device ceases to display the messaging user interface, and displays an application store user interface, including display of at least one interactive application available for download to the electronic device. While displaying the application store user interface, the device detects an input that corresponds to a request to download a first interactive application that is not stored in the memory of the electronic device; and, in response to detecting the input that corresponds to the request to download the first interactive application: the device downloads the first interactive application to the memory; replaces display of the application store user interface with display of the messaging user interface; and adds a launch icon that corresponds to the first interactive application to the display of the plurality of launch icons for interactive applications.