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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Imran Chaudhri, San Francisco, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device detects a gesture on a touch-sensitive display while in an application view selection mode. In response to detecting the gesture, in accordance with a determination that the gesture starts from an edge of the touch-sensitive display and moves in a first direction, the device replaces display of at least a portion of representations of a first plurality of recently used applications with a user interface that includes one or more electronic notifications. In response to detecting the gesture, in accordance with a determination that the gesture moves in a second direction that is different from the first direction, the device switches from displaying the representations of the first plurality of recently used applications to displaying representations of a second plurality of recently used applications. The second plurality of recently used applications is different from the first plurality of recently used applications.