US 12,045,437 B2
Digital assistant user interfaces and response modes
Neal Ellis, San Jose, CA (US); Oluwatomiwa B. Alabi, Studio City, CA (US); Robert Burton, Los Gatos, CA (US); Richard R. Dellinger, San Jose, CA (US); Thomas R. Fazio, Campbell, CA (US); Craig M. Federighi, Los Altos Hills, CA (US); Rebecca P. Fish, San Francisco, CA (US); Nikrouz Ghotbi, San Jose, CA (US); James N. Jones, San Francisco, CA (US); Ieyuki Kawashima, San Jose, CA (US); Stephen O. Lemay, Palo Alto, CA (US); Pedro Mari, Santa Cruz, CA (US); Aaron Musengo, San Jose, CA (US); James E. Palmer, San Jose, CA (US); Patchaya Beam Seilaudom, Palo Alto, CA (US); Andrea Valentina Simes, San Francisco, CA (US); Tyler McClay Smith, San Jose, CA (US); Trungtin Tran, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Robert A. Walker, II, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/227,012.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/028,821, filed on May 22, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. PA202070547 (DK), filed on Aug. 24, 2020; and application No. PA202070548 (DK), filed on Aug. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0365161 A1, Nov. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 3/0488 (2022.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/0481 (2022.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2022.01); G06F 3/04883 (2022.01); G06F 3/04886 (2022.01); G06F 9/451 (2018.01); G06F 40/134 (2020.01); G06F 40/20 (2020.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0482 (2013.01) [G06F 3/041 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 3/04886 (2013.01); G06F 9/453 (2018.02); G06F 40/134 (2020.01); G06F 40/20 (2020.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04803 (2013.01)] 45 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by one or more processors of an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface, cause the electronic device to:
while displaying a user interface different from a digital assistant user interface, receive a user input;
in accordance with a determination that the user input satisfies a criterion for initiating a digital assistant:
receive a natural language input;
without dismissing the digital assistant after receiving the natural language input, display, over the user interface, the digital assistant user interface, the digital assistant user interface including:
a digital assistant indicator displayed at a first portion of the display; and
a response affordance displayed at a second portion of the display, wherein the response affordance is concurrently displayed with the digital assistant indicator and corresponds to a response, by the digital assistant, to the natural language input wherein the response affordance is presented at a first time, and wherein when the response affordance and the digital assistant indicator are concurrently displayed:
a portion of the user interface remains visible at a third portion of the display when the response affordance is initially displayed, the third portion of the display occupying a majority of the display; and
the third portion is between the first portion and the second portion;
in accordance with a determination that the response affordance corresponds to a predetermined type of response affordance, automatically cease to display the digital assistant user interface a predetermined duration after the first time.