US 11,720,171 B2
Methods for navigating user interfaces
Israel Pastrana Vicente, San Jose, CA (US); Jay Moon, San Francisco, CA (US); Jesse Chand, San Francisco, CA (US); Jonathan R. Dascola, San Francisco, CA (US); Jeffrey M. Faulkner, San Francisco, CA (US); Pol Pla I Conesa, San Francisco, CA (US); and Dorian D. Dargan, Danville, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/479,791.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/083,804, filed on Sep. 25, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0100270 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/0481 (2022.01); G06F 3/04842 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/013 (2013.01) [G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01)] 39 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
at an electronic device in communication with a display generation component and one or more input devices including an eye tracking device:
displaying, via the display generation component, a first user interface that includes a respective user interface element associated with a second user interface;
while displaying the first user interface, detecting, via the eye tracking device, that a gaze of a user is directed to the respective user interface element; and
in response to detecting an input that includes the gaze of the user directed to the respective user interface element:
in accordance with a determination that the gaze of the user continues to be directed to the respective user interface element for longer than a time threshold, navigating to the second user interface; and
in accordance with a determination that a selection input is detected via the one or more input devices when the gaze of the user has been directed to the respective user interface element for shorter than the time threshold, navigating to the second user interface without waiting for the gaze to continue to be directed to the respective user interface element for longer than the time threshold.