User interfaces for enabling an activity

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12461642-B2
Application number	US-202318199574-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 19, 2023
Priority date	Apr 10, 2020
Publication date	Nov 4, 2025
Grant date	Nov 4, 2025

Abstract

The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for enabling an activity using a computer system. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for invoking an activity associated with an application are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for customizing displayed content based on circumstances under which the content was invoked are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing applications that were used to enable activities are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing settings for applications used to enable activities are described.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A computer system, comprising:
a display generation component; one or more input devices; one or more processors; and memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for:
detecting, via the one or more input devices, a request to invoke a first application; and
in response to detecting the request to invoke the first application, displaying, via the display generation component, a first user interface corresponding to the first application, wherein:
in accordance with a determination that detecting the request to invoke the first application occurred in a first context, displaying the first user interface includes displaying, in the first user interface, first content in a respective region of the first user interface, wherein the first content includes:
an indication of the first context; and
a first selectable option that, when selected, causes the computer system to initiate a respective action outside of the first application that corresponds to the first context, wherein the first selectable option is displayed concurrently with the indication of the first context; and

in accordance with a determination that detecting the request to invoke the first application occurred in a second context different from the first context, displaying the first user interface includes displaying, in the first user interface, second content in the respective region of the first user interface, wherein the second content is different from the first content and includes:
an indication of the second context; and
a second selectable option that, when selected, causes the computer system to initiate the respective action outside of the first application that corresponds to the second context, wherein the second selectable option is displayed concurrently with the indication of the second context.

2 . The computer system of claim 1 , wherein:
the first context corresponds to a first location and the first content includes an indication of the first location, and the second context corresponds to a second location different from the first location and the second content includes an indication of the second location.

3 . The computer system of claim 1 , wherein:
the first context corresponds to first identification information and the first content includes an indication of a first identifier, and the second context corresponds to second identification information and the second content includes an indication of a second identifier.

4 . The computer system of claim 1 , the one or more programs further including instructions for:
subsequent to displaying the first user interface corresponding to the first application, detecting, via the one or more input devices, a second request to invoke the first application, wherein the second request is detected after at least a predetermined time period; and in response to detecting the second request to invoke the first application, displaying, via the display generation component, the first user interface corresponding to the first application, wherein displaying the first user interface includes displaying, in the first user interface, third content, different from the first content and the second content, in the respective region of the first user interface.

5 . The computer system of claim 1 , wherein the first user interface corresponds to a first vendor, and wherein displaying the first user interface includes displaying, via the display generation component, an indication of an entity that created the first application used to display the first user interface.

6 . The computer system of claim 1 , the one or more programs further including instructions for:
while a first instance of the first application has been recently used and a second instance of the first application has been recently used on the computer system:
displaying, via the display generation component, a second user interface that includes a plurality of user interface preview items corresponding to applications that have been recently used on the computer system, wherein the plurality of user interface preview items includes a first user interface preview item corresponding to the first application without including another user interface preview item that corresponds to the first application.

7 . The computer system of claim 1 , the one or more programs further including instructions for:
while a first instance of the first application has been recently used and a second instance of the first application has been recently used on the computer system:
displaying, via the display generation component, a second user interface that includes a plurality of user interface preview items corresponding to applications that have been recently used on the computer system, wherein the plurality of user interface preview items includes a first user interface preview item corresponding to the first instance of the first user interface without including a second user interface preview item corresponding to the second instance of the first user interface.

8 . The computer system of claim 1 , the one or more programs further including instructions for:
subsequent to displaying, via the display generation component, the first user interface corresponding to the first application:
displaying, via the display generation component, a second user interface that includes a plurality of user interface preview items corresponding to applications that have been recently used on the computer system, wherein the plurality of user interface preview items include a first user interface preview item corresponding to a first instance of the first application and a second user interface preview item of a second instance of the first application.

9 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs configured to be executed by one or more processors of computer system that is in communication with a display generation component and one or more input devices, the one or more programs including instructions for:
detecting, via the one or more input devices, a request to invoke a first application; and in response to detecting the request to invoke the first application, displaying, via the display generation component, a first user interface corresponding to the first application, wherein:
in accordance with a determination that detecting the request to invoke the first application occurred in a first context, displaying the first user interface includes displaying, in the first user interface, first content in a respective region of the first user interface, wherein the first content includes:
an indication of the first context; and
a first selectable option that, when selected, causes the computer system to initiate a respective action outside of the first application that corresponds to the first context, wherein the first selectable option is displayed concurrently with the indication of the first context; and

in accordance with a determination that detecting the request to invoke the first application occurred in a second context different from the first context, displaying the first user interface includes displaying, in the first user interface, second content in the respective region of the first user interface, wherein the second content is different from the first content and includes:
an indication of the second context; and
a second selectable option that, when selected, causes the computer system to initiate the respective action outside of the first application that corresponds to the second context, wherein the second selectable option is displayed concurrently wi

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Zhang Yongjun
• Abbasian Reza
• Adler Darin
• Coffman Patrick L
• Doherty Nicholas Stephen
• Falkenburg Steven
• Federighi Craig M
• Ferry Kenneth Arthur Abraham
• Foss Christopher Patrick
• Goldberg Brian Erik
• Ko Heena
• Paul Grant
• Ritchie Grant C
• Stack Caelan G
• Ying Charles H
• Zhang Xiaoyue

Classifications

• H04L67/5651

  Reducing the amount or size of exchanged application data · CPC title

• H04L67/34

  involving the movement of software or configuration parameters  (network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416) · CPC title

• G06F9/54

  Interprogram communication · CPC title

• G06F9/44568

  Immediately runnable code · CPC title

• G06F3/0488 Primary

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title