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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Imran A. Chaudhri, San Francisco, CA (US);
May-Li Khoe, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nicholas Zambetti, Largo, FL (US);
Lawrence Y. Yang, Bellevue, WA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In an exemplary method performed at an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display. The method includes concurrently displaying a first application and a second application on the touch-sensitive display. The method also includes detecting a first contact at a border between the concurrently displayed first and second applications. Immediately following detecting the first contact: detecting a gesture from a location of the first contact towards an edge of the touch-sensitive display. Upon detecting the gesture: selecting a fixed display area from a plurality of predefined fixed display areas for the second application; automatically resizing the second application to the selected fixed display area; and automatically resizing the first application to occupy substantially all of a remaining area of the touch-sensitive display.