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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
John L. Blatz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andrew William Malta, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jay Moon, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Pallavika Ramaswamy, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ari Weinstein, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and processes for accelerating task performance are provided. An example method includes, at an electronic device with a display, displaying a candidate shortcut affordance associated with a user activity, detecting a first set of inputs corresponding to a selection of the candidate shortcut affordance, in response to detecting the first set of inputs, displaying a first set of candidate task affordances, detecting a second set of inputs corresponding to a selection of a candidate task affordance associated with a first task, displaying a second set of candidate task affordances, detecting a third set of inputs corresponding to a selection of a candidate task affordance associated with a second task, and in response to detecting the second set of inputs and the third set of inputs, associating the first task and the second task with a task sequence for a voice shortcut corresponding to the user activity.