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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2025
Filed:
May. 22, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Nicholas Zambetti, San Francisco, CA (US);
Imran Chaudhri, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jonathan R. Dascola, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alan C. Dye, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher Patrick Foss, San Francisco, CA (US);
Aurelio Guzman, San Jose, CA (US);
Chanaka G. Karunamuni, San Jose, CA (US);
Duncan Robert Kerr, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher Wilson, Sonoma, CA (US);
Eric Lance Wilson, San Jose, CA (US);
Lawrence Y. Yang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Gary Ian Butcher, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Nathan De Vries, Alameda, CA (US);
Jonathan P. Ive, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to user interfaces for manipulating user interface objects. A device, including a display and a rotatable input mechanism, is described in relation to manipulating user interface objects. In some examples, the manipulation of the object is a scroll, zoom, or rotate of the object. In other examples, objects are selected in accordance with simulated magnetic properties.