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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2015
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Craig M. Federighi, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Marcos Alonso Ruiz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andrew B. Cato, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jonathan R. Dascola, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher P. Foss, San Francisco, CA (US);
Olivier D. R. Gutknecht, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joseph A. Hagedorn, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael T. Jurewitz, Cupertino, CA (US);
Chanaka G. Karunamuni, San Jose, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes: displaying a first view of a first application; detecting a first portion of a first input; if the first portion of the first input meets application-switching criteria, concurrently displaying portions of the first application view and a second application view; while concurrently displaying the portions of the application views, detecting a second portion of the first input; if the second portion of the first input meets first-view display criteria (liftoff of contact detected in a first region), ceasing to display the portion of the second application view and displaying the first application view; and if the second portion of the first input meets multi-view display criteria (liftoff of contact detected in a second region), maintaining concurrent display of a portion of the first application view and a portion of the second application view on the display after detecting the liftoff of the contact.