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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Ayaka Nonaka, Berkeley, CA (US);
Daniel Sean Hsu, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Ian J. McDowell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nicholas Christian Frey, Tacoma, WA (US);
Charles B. Etzel, Cupertino, CA (US);
Conrad B. Kramer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jay Moon, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Elizabeth Elsa Perakis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ari Weinstein, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example process for performing a task includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory, determining whether a shortcut criteria is met and in accordance with a determination that the shortcut criteria is met: displaying a first affordance corresponding to a first task of a shortcut over a user interface, determining whether the first task can be completed without displaying an application interface corresponding to the first task, in accordance with a determination that the first task can be completed without displaying the application interface, performing the first task while displaying the first affordance, and in accordance with a determination that the first task cannot be completed without displaying the application interface, displaying the application interface, and completing the first task using the application interface.