Device, method, and graphical user interface for organizing and presenting a collection of media items

Abstract

An electronic device with a display and, optionally, a touch-sensitive surface obtains a collection of media items. In some embodiments, the device determines one or more patterns in the collection based on a comparison between properties of sequentially adjacent items and divides the collection into multiple events that includes a plurality of multi-item events. In some embodiments, the device receives a first request to display a first portion of the collection organized in accordance with a first detailed-granularity level and, in response to the first request, displaying a first plurality of representations of the items. The device receives a second request to display a second portion of the collection organized in accordance with a respective overview-granularity level that corresponds to multiple detailed-granularity levels and, in response to the second request, displays a second plurality of representations of the items.

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technical field [0001] This document relates generally to electronic devices with touch-sensitive surfaces, including but not limited to electronic devices with touch-sensitive surfaces that organize collections of media items. Background technique [0002] The use of touch-sensitive surfaces as input devices for computers and other electronic computing devices has grown significantly in recent years. Exemplary touch-sensitive surfaces include touchpads and touchscreen displays. Such surfaces are widely used for manipulating user interface objects on a display. [0003] Exemplary manipulations include adjusting the position and / or size of one or more images or viewing images associated with an image album. Exemplary user interface objects include digital images, video, text, icons, control elements such as buttons, and other graphics. In some cases, a user will need to perform such manipulations of user interface objects in a file management program (e.g., Finder from App...

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Problems solved by technology

[0004] However, the methods used to perform these manipulations are cumbersome and inefficient

For example, utilizing a series of mouse-based inputs to select one or more UI objects and perform one or more actions on the selected UI objects is tedious and places a significant cognitive burden on the user

Also, these methods take longer than necessary, wasting energy

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