Apple patents system to check if wearable can run an app while worn
Apple describes a method where an app asks a wearable device if it can perform a specific task while being worn by a user. The device checks its current performance data to see if it meets the app's requirements and sends back an answer.
In the filing’s own words
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that enable an application to query a wearable device to determine whether current use of the wearable device by a user satisfies a performance requirement. For example, a process may include receiving a request corresponding to the wearable device satisfying a performance requirement required for an application to perform a function while the wearable device is worn by a user. The process may further obtain device performance data corresponding to a capability of the wearable device while the wearable device is worn by the user. The process may further provide a response to the request based on the performance requirement and the device performance data. The response may provide or enable a determination of whether the wearable device will satisfy the performance requirement required for the application to perform the function while the wearable electronic device is worn by a user.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: at a wearable electronic device having a processor: receiving a request for an application, the request corresponding to the wearable electronic device satisfying a performance requirement required for the application to perform a function while the wearable electronic device is worn by a user; obtaining device performance data corresponding to a capability of the device while the wearable electronic device is worn by the user; and providing a response to the request based on the performance requirement and the device performance data, wherein the response provides or enables a determination of whether the wearable electronic device will satisfy the performance requirement required for the application to perform the function while the wearable electronic device is worn by a user.
Facts
- Company
- Apple (Apple Inc.)
- Official title
- USER-DEPENDENT DISPLAY PERFORMANCE INTERFACE
- Publication number
- US20260319828A1
- Application number
- 19633141
- Filed
- Mar 30, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 9/4806 Physics & computingG06F 3/013 Physics & computingMore from Apple in Wearables
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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