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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Kenneth Kocienda, San Jose, CA (US);
Chanaka G. Karunamuni, San Jose, CA (US);
Gary Ian Butcher, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Imran Chaudhri, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dylan Ross Edwards, Cupertino, CA (US);
Aurelio Guzman, San Jose, CA (US);
Jonathan P. Ive, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes displaying a user interface including a plurality of application icons for launching application programs. The plurality of application icons include a first application icon displayed at a first size and a second application icon displayed at a second size, the first and second application icons arranged in a first arrangement. While displaying the user interface, detecting a set of one or more user inputs. In response to the set of one or more user inputs, rearranging the first and second application icons into a second arrangement, different than the first arrangement, where rearranging the first and second application icons includes displaying the first application icon at a third size, greater than the first size, and displaying the second application icon at a fourth size, greater than the second size.