Methods and user interfaces for editing a clock face

Inventors

Chen, Kevin Will • GUZMAN, Aurelio • Wilson, Christopher

Assignees

Apple Inc

Abstract

Context-specific user interfaces, e.g., for use with a portable multifunction device, provide, inter alia, indications of time and, optionally, a variety of additional information. A user interface screen including a current time indicator and a first platter is displayed. The first platter is at a first position, is associated with a first application, and displays a first set of information obtained from the first application. The first set of information relates to a first temporal context of the current day. In response to detecting a user input, the first platter is displayed at a second position and a second platter is displayed at the first position. The second platter is associated with a second application and displays a second set of information obtained from the second application. The second set of information relates to a second temporal context of the current day.

Core Innovation

An electronic device displays, via a display, a user interface screen including a clock face, where the user interface screen includes a first human or anthropomorphized character object on the display and a time graphical object corresponding to a representation of time that is separate from the first human or anthropomorphized character object. The time graphical object is maintained as being separate from the character object across the user interface experience, including when the device enters an edit mode.

The device detects a sequence of one or more inputs including an input detected while the user interface screen including the clock face is displayed. In response to detecting the sequence of one or more inputs, the device enters a clock face edit mode and displays a time graphical object corresponding to a representation of time in the clock face edit mode, the time graphical object remaining separate from the first human or anthropomorphized character object.

While in the clock face edit mode, the device detects a first input and replaces the first human or anthropomorphized character object on the display with a second human or anthropomorphized character object on the display that is different from the first human or anthropomorphized character object. The device maintains displaying the time graphical object corresponding to the representation of time in the clock face edit mode.

Claims Coverage

The partial content provides three independent claim sets: an electronic device claim, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium claim, and a method claim. Across these independent claims, the core inventive coverage includes clock face editing in which a time graphical object remains separate from a human or anthropomorphized character object while the character object is replaced, driven by detecting an input sequence and subsequent inputs in a clock face edit mode.

The independent claims collectively cover a clock face user interface that separates a time graphical object from a character object, entering a clock face edit mode upon detecting a sequence of inputs, maintaining the separate time graphical object in the edit mode, and replacing the character object with a different character object in response to a first input while keeping the separate time graphical object displayed.

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