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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2023
Filed:
May. 12, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Kazuhisa Yanagihara, Cupertino, CA (US);
Frank de Jong, San Francisco, CA (US);
Patrick Lee Coffman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert Ulrich, San Jose, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes, while an application is installed on a device and a representation of the application has a designated location in a respective portion of an application launching user interface, detecting an application-demotion request to delete the application from the device without deleting associated data for the application. In response to detecting the application-demotion request, deleting the application from the device without deleting the associated data for the application. After deleting the application from the device, detecting a request to display the respective portion of the application launching user interface and, in response to detecting the request to display the respective portion of the application launching user interface, displaying the respective portion of the application launching user interface, including displaying the representation of the application in the designated location in the respective portion of the application launching user interface.