Devices and methods for navigating between user interfaces

• Main Authors: CHAUDHRI IMRAN A, FOSS CHRISTOPHER P, WELLS NICOLE M, KARUNAMUNI CHANAKA G, GUTKNECHT OLIVIER D.R, CATO ANDREW B, DASCOLA JONATHAN R, WESTERMAN WAYNE C, LEMAY STEPHEN 0, BAUER SEBASTIAN J, FEDERIGHI CRAIG M, GAMBLE MATTHEW H, HAGEDORN JOSEPH A, ALONSO RUIZ MARCOS, JUREWITZ MICHAEL T
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 22.02.2017
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

The disclosure provides devices and methods for navigating between user interfaces. An electronic device comprises a display, a touch-sensitive surface, and one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts. The processing unit is configured as displaying, on the display, a user interface for an application; detecting an edge input that includes detecting a change in a characteristic intensity of a contact proximate to an edge of the touch-sensitive surface; and, in response to detecting the edge input: in accordance with a determination that the edge input meets system-gesture criteria, performing an operation that is independent of the application, wherein: the system-gesture criteria include intensity criteria; the system-gesture criteria include a location criterion that is met when the intensity criteria for the contact are met while the contact is within a first region relative to the touch-sensitive surface; and the first region relative to the touch-sensitive surface is determined based on one or mo