Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for providing feedback during interaction with an intensity-sensitive button

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10303252-B2
Application number	US-201615272398-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 21, 2016
Priority date	Sep 6, 2016
Publication date	May 28, 2019
Grant date	May 28, 2019

Abstract

An electronic device has a home button that is available in a plurality of different contexts to dismiss user interfaces in response a first type of input. The device detects a first input of the first type directed to a displayed first user interface. In response, the device determines whether user interface tactile outputs are enabled. If so, the device performs a first operation and provides a corresponding first tactile output. If not, the device performs the first operation and forgoes providing at least a portion of the corresponding first tactile output. After performing the first operation, the device detects a second input of the first type on the home button. In response, the device performs a second operation that is associated with the home button and provides tactile output that is associated with activation of the home button, regardless of whether user interface tactile outputs are enabled.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions that, when executed by an electronic device with a display, a touch-sensitive surface, and one or more tactile output generators for generating tactile outputs, cause the electronic device to:
display, on the display, a first user interface, wherein a home button is available on the device in a plurality of different contexts to dismiss a currently displayed user interface in response to detecting an input of a first type on the home button;
while displaying the first user interface, detect a first input of the first type directed to the first user interface;
in response to detecting the first input of the first type directed to the first user interface:
in accordance with a determination that user interface tactile outputs are enabled at the electronic device, perform a first operation and provide, via the one or more tactile output generators, a first tactile output that corresponds to the first operation; and
in accordance with a determination that user interface tactile outputs are disabled at the electronic device, perform the first operation, and forgo providing at least a portion of the first tactile output that corresponds to the first operation;

after performing the first operation, detect a second input of the first type on the home button; and
in response to detecting the second input of the first type on the home button:
perform a second operation that is associated with the home button; and
provide, via the one or more tactile output generators, a second tactile output that is associated with activation of the home button, without regard to whether or not user interface tactile outputs are enabled at the electronic device.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the first user interface is a user interface of a first application, the first operation is an operation of the first application, and the second operation includes dismissing the first application.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , the programs further comprising instructions that cause the electronic device to:
after performing the first operation, detect a first input of a second type, distinct from the first type, on the home button; and
in response to detecting the first input of the second type on the home button:
perform a third operation, distinct from the second operation, that is associated with the home button; and
provide, via the one or more tactile output generators, a third tactile output that is associated with activation of the home button, without regard to whether or not user interface tactile outputs are enabled at the electronic device.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , the programs further comprising instructions that cause the electronic device to:
after performing the first operation, detect a first input of a third type, distinct from the first type, on the home button; and
in response to detecting the first input of the third type on the home button:
perform a fourth operation, distinct from the second operation, that is associated with the home button; and
provide, via the one or more tactile output generators, a fourth tactile output that is associated with activation of the home button, without regard to whether or not user interface tactile outputs are enabled at the electronic device.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the first tactile output and the second tactile output that is associated with activation of the home button are provided by the same one or more actuators of the one or more tactile output generators.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein a tactile output pattern of a corresponding tactile output that is provided in response to a respective input of the first type on the home button is user-adjustable.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , the programs further comprising instructions that cause the device to:
in response to detecting the second input of the first type on the home button, provide an audio output with the tactile output that is associated with activation of the home button, without regard to whether or not user interface tactile outputs are enabled, and without regard to whether or not audio outputs are muted at the electronic device.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , the programs further comprising instructions that cause the electronic device to:
in response to detecting the second input of the first type on the home button, provide an audio output with the second tactile output that is associated with activation of the home button, without regard to whether or not user interface tactile outputs are enabled, wherein a volume of the audio output is independent of a current volume setting at the electronic device.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , the programs further comprising instructions that cause the electronic device to:
in response to detecting the first input of the first type directed to the first user interface:
in accordance with a determination that user interface tactile outputs are enabled at the electronic device:
in accordance with a determination that audio outputs are not muted at the electronic device, provide an audio output with the first tactile output; and
in accordance with a determination that audio outputs are muted at the electronic device, forgo providing the audio output with the first tactile output.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , the programs further comprising instructions that cause the electronic device to:
in response to detecting the first input of the first type directed to the first user interface:
in accordance with a determination that user interface tactile outputs are enabled at the electronic device:
in accordance with a determination that audio volumes are set to a first level at the electronic device, provide an audio output with the first tactile output at a first volume that is determined based on the first level of the audio volumes at the electronic device; and
in accordance with a determination that audio volumes are set to a second level at the electronic device, provide the audio output with the first tactile output at a second volume that is different from the first volume and is determined based on the second level of the audio volumes at the electronic device.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , the programs further comprising instructions that cause the electronic device to:
in response to detecting the first input of the first type directed to the first user interface:
in accordance with a determination that user interface tactile outputs are disabled at the electronic device, forgo providing the audio output with the first tactile output, without regard to whether or not audio outputs are muted at the electronic device.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , the programs further comprising instructions that cause the electronic device to:
in response to detecting the first input of the first type directed to the first user interface:
in accordance with a determination that user interface tactile outputs are disabled at the electronic device and in accordance with a determination that the first operation is a predefined exempted operation, provide the first tactile output that corresponds to the first operation with the

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Chaudhri Imran A
• Bauer Sebastian J
• Kocienda Kenneth L
• Alonso Ruiz Marcos
• Butcher Gary I
• Moussette Camille
• Mouilleseaux Jean-Pierre M
• Cordier Madeleine S

Classifications

• G06T13/80

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• G06F2203/04105

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• G06F3/04886

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• G06F3/04883 Primary

  for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text · CPC title

• G06F3/0485

  Scrolling or panning · CPC title