Multi-participant live communication user interface

• US 10,389,977 B1
• Filed: 09/28/2018
• Issued: 08/20/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Van Os, Marcel, Broughton, Lee S., Callaway, Peter, Caro, Pablo F., Chang, Jae Woo, Dryer, Allison, Garcia, Robert, King, Nicholas V., Lemay, Stephen O., Louch, John, Pham, Hoan
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramakrishnaiah, Melur
• Application Number:
  US16/147,432
• Time in Patent Office: 326 Days
• Field of Search: 348 1408- 1416, 715753, 715838
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10016 Video; Image sequence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30196 Human being; Person
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/20 Analysis of motion motion estimation for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/43, H04N19/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/043 using or handling presence information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72439 for image or video messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2007/145 Handheld terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42224 Touch pad or touch panel provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2628 Alteration of picture size, shape, position or orientation, e.g. zooming, rotation, rolling, perspective, translation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/141 between two video terminals, e.g. videophone telephonic communication systems combined with television receiver for reception of entertainment or information matter H04M11/085
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/144 camera and display on the same optical axis, e.g. optically multiplexing the camera and display for eye to eye contact
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/152 Multipoint control units therefor

Abstract

An electronic device includes a display, one or more processors, and memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors. The device can receive a request to display a user interface for a live communication session between two or more participants. In response to receiving the request to display the user interface for the live communication session between two or more participants, the device can display a live communication user interface including concurrently displaying a plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session. Moreover, the device can display the plurality of representations of participants in live user interface differently based on the number of participants in the live communication session.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a display;

one or more processors; and

memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

receiving a request to display a user interface for a live communication session between two or more participants; and

in response to receiving the request to display the user interface for the live communication session between two or more participants, displaying a live communication user interface including concurrently displaying a plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session, wherein;

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes more than a threshold number of participants, at least some of the plurality of representations of participants other than a user of the electronic device overlap each other; and

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes less than or equal to the threshold number of participants, none of the plurality of representations of participants other than the user of the electronic device overlap each other.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

after displaying the live communication session, detecting a change in relative activity levels of participants in live communication session; and

in response to detecting the change in relative activity levels of participants in live communication session;

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes more than the threshold number of participants, resizing a plurality of the representations of participants relative to each other while maintaining at least some overlapping between the plurality representation of the plurality of participants other than the user of the electronic device; and

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes less than or equal to than the threshold number of participants, maintaining the size of the plurality of representations of participants relative to each.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein displaying the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session further includes:

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes more than a second threshold number of participants, displaying representations of a first plurality of the participants other than the user of the electronic device at one or more sizes greater than a respective threshold size while displaying representations of a second plurality of the participants in an overflow region, wherein the second plurality of participants includes one or more participants not included in the first plurality of participants and the representations of the one or more other participants displayed in the overflow region are displayed at a size smaller than the respective threshold size; and

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes less than or equal to the second threshold number of participants, displaying representations of the first plurality of the participants other than the user of the electronic device at one or more sizes greater than the respective threshold size without displaying representations of participants other than the user of the electronic device at one or more sizes smaller than or equal to the respective threshold size.

4. The electronic device of claim 3, wherein at least some of the representations of the first plurality of the participants other than the user of the electronic device overlap each other, and wherein none of the representations of the second plurality of the participants in the overflow region overlap each other.

5. The electronic device of claim 3, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

updating the display of the representations of the first plurality of the participants at a first rate; and

updating the display of the representations of the second plurality of the participants in the overflow region at a second rate, wherein the second rate is lower than the first rate.

6. The electronic device of claim 3, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

detecting an input corresponding to the overflow region; and

in response to detecting the input corresponding to the overflow region;

scrolling the overflow region to cease to display a subset of the representations of the second plurality of participants; and

while scrolling the overflow region, maintaining the display of the representation of a view of the camera of the electronic device in the overflow region.

7. The electronic device of claim 3, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

while displaying representations of the participants other than the user of the electronic device, receiving data indicating that the number of participants in the live communication session has increased; and

in response to receiving the data indicating that the number of participants in the live communication session has increased;

decreasing the size of one or more of the representations of participants other than the user of the electronic device; and

displaying one or more representations of new participants in the live communication session.

8. The electronic device of claim 3, wherein the live communication session user interface further includes a placeholder associated with a first participant who has been invited to the live communication session but has not yet joined the live communication session.

9. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the placeholder includes a first reminder affordance for the first participant, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

receiving an input corresponding to selection of the first reminder affordance; and

in response to receiving the input corresponding to selection of the first reminder affordance, sending a new notification to the first participant that is different from a previous notification sent to the first participant.

10. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the placeholder and the representations of the first plurality of the participants are arranged in a first layout, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

in accordance with a determination that the first participant has not joined the live communication session for a predetermined amount of time;

ceasing to display the placeholder; and

changing the arrangement of the representations of the first plurality of the participants to a second layout, different from the first layout that includes enlarging and/or moving one or more of the representations of participants.

11. The electronic device of claim 8, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

in accordance with a determination that the first participant has joined the live communication session, modifying the display of the placeholder with a representation of the first participant.

12. The electronic device of claim 3, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

detecting an input corresponding to selection of a representation in the representations of the second plurality of participants in the overflow region; and

in response to detecting the input corresponding to selection of a representation in the representations of the second plurality of participants in the overflow region;

replacing the display of a representation in the representations of the first plurality of the participants with a representation of the participant corresponding to the selected representation in the overflow region.

13. The electronic device of claim 3, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

while displaying the live communication user interface, detecting a second participant in the second plurality of participants becoming a currently active participant; and

in response to detecting the second participant in the second plurality of participants becoming the currently active participant and in accordance with a determination that a representation of the second participant in the second plurality of participants is not currently displayed in the overflow region, scrolling the overflow region to display the representation of the second participant in the second plurality of participants in the overflow region.

14. The electronic device of claim 3, wherein the overflow region further includes placeholder representations for invitees of the live communication session that are not currently connected to the live communication session.

15. The electronic device of claim 3, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

while displaying the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session, receiving a fourth input corresponding to a request to display a menu; and

in response to receiving the fourth input;

displaying, in the user interface for the live communication session, a menu;

moving at least a third representation of the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session; and

changing the size of at least a fourth representation of the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session.

16. The electronic device of claim 3, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

while displaying the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session, receiving an input corresponding to a request to display a first menu;

in response to receiving the input corresponding to the request to display the first menu, displaying the first menu in the live communication user interface, wherein the first menu includes an option for selecting a content item;

receiving an input corresponding to selection of a content item; and

in response to receiving the input corresponding to selection of the content item, replacing a representation of a participant displayed at a size greater than the respective threshold size with a representation of the content item at a size greater than the respective threshold size.

17. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein displaying the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session further includes:

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes less than a second threshold number of participants, displaying at least one of the representations of the participants other than the user of the electronic device at a first aspect ratio; and

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes more than the second threshold number of participants, displaying at least one of the representations of the participants other than the user of the electronic device at a second aspect ratio, different from the first aspect ratio.

18. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein displaying the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session further includes:

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes less than a third threshold number of participants, displaying a representation of a view of a camera of the electronic device at a third aspect ratio; and

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes more than or equal to the third threshold number of participants, displaying the representation of the view of the camera of the electronic device at a fourth aspect ratio, different from the third aspect ratio.

19. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein displaying the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session further includes:

in accordance with the number of participants in the live communication session being a first number of participants, displaying the representations of the participants in a first layout; and

in accordance with the number of participants in the live communication session being a second number of participants, displaying the representations of the participants in a second layout, different from the second layout.

20. The electronic device of claim 1, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

displaying, as part of the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session, a representation of a view of a camera of the electronic device at a first size;

while displaying the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session, receiving a first input corresponding to selection for displaying a first menu;

in response to receiving the input corresponding to selection for displaying the first menu, displaying the first menu in the live communication user interface, wherein the first menu includes an option for displaying a visual effect on a representation of a participant in the live communication session; and

in response to receiving a second input corresponding to selection of the option for displaying a visual effect, displaying the representation of the view of the camera of the electronic device at a second size, wherein the second size is greater than the first size.

21. The electronic device of claim 1, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

receiving a third input corresponding to selection for enlarging a first representation in the plurality of representations of the participants in the live communication session;

in response to receiving the third input corresponding to selection for enlarging the first representation in the plurality of representations of the participants in the live communication session, enlarging the first representation; and

reducing a size of at least one representation in the plurality of representations of the participants in the live communication session that is different from the first representation.

22. The electronic device of claim 1, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

in response to receiving first data indicating a change in orientation of the electronic device, changing the display of a first representation in the plurality of representations of the participants in the live communication session based on a position of a face in the first representation.

23. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs configured to be executed by one or more processors of an electronic device with a display, the one or more programs including instructions for:

receiving a request to display a user interface for a live communication session between two or more participants; and

in response to receiving the request to display the user interface for the live communication session between two or more participants, displaying a live communication user interface including concurrently displaying a plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session, wherein;

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes more than a threshold number of participants, at least some of the plurality of representations of participants other than a user of the electronic device overlap each other; and

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes less than or equal to the threshold number of participants, none of the plurality of representations of participants other than the user of the electronic device overlap each other.

24. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 23, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

after displaying the live communication session, detecting a change in relative activity levels of participants in live communication session; and

in response to detecting the change in relative activity levels of participants in live communication session;

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes more than the threshold number of participants, resizing a plurality of the representations of participants relative to each other while maintaining at least some overlapping between the plurality representation of the plurality of participants other than the user of the electronic device; and

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes less than or equal to than the threshold number of participants, maintaining the size of the plurality of representations of participants relative to each.

25. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 23, wherein displaying the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session further includes:

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes more than a second threshold number of participants, displaying representations of a first plurality of the participants other than the user of the electronic device at one or more sizes greater than a respective threshold size while displaying representations of a second plurality of the participants in an overflow region, wherein the second plurality of participants includes one or more participants not included in the first plurality of participants and the representations of the one or more other participants displayed in the overflow region are displayed at a size smaller than the respective threshold size; and

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes less than or equal to the second threshold number of participants, displaying representations of the first plurality of the participants other than the user of the electronic device at one or more sizes greater than the respective threshold size without displaying representations of participants other than the user of the electronic device at one or more sizes smaller than or equal to the respective threshold size.

26. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 25, wherein at least some of the representations of the first plurality of the participants other than the user of the electronic device overlap each other, and wherein none of the representations of the second plurality of the participants in the overflow region overlap each other.

27. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 25, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

updating the display of the representations of the first plurality of the participants at a first rate; and

updating the display of the representations of the second plurality of the participants in the overflow region at a second rate, wherein the second rate is lower than the first rate.

28. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 25, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

detecting an input corresponding to the overflow region; and

in response to detecting the input corresponding to the overflow region;

scrolling the overflow region to cease to display a subset of the representations of the second plurality of participants; and

while scrolling the overflow region, maintaining the display of the representation of a view of the camera of the electronic device in the overflow region.

29. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 25, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

while displaying representations of the participants other than the user of the electronic device, receiving data indicating that the number of participants in the live communication session has increased; and

in response to receiving the data indicating that the number of participants in the live communication session has increased;

decreasing the size of one or more of the representations of participants other than the user of the electronic device; and

displaying one or more representations of new participants in the live communication session.

30. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 25, wherein the live communication session user interface further includes a placeholder associated with a first participant who has been invited to the live communication session but has not yet joined the live communication session.

31. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 30, wherein the placeholder includes a first reminder affordance for the first participant, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

receiving an input corresponding to selection of the first reminder affordance; and

in response to receiving the input corresponding to selection of the first reminder affordance, sending a new notification to the first participant that is different from a previous notification sent to the first participant.

32. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 30, wherein the placeholder and the representations of the first plurality of the participants are arranged in a first layout, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

in accordance with a determination that the first participant has not joined the live communication session for a predetermined amount of time;

ceasing to display the placeholder; and

changing the arrangement of the representations of the first plurality of the participants to a second layout, different from the first layout that includes enlarging and/or moving one or more of the representations of participants.

33. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 30, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

in accordance with a determination that the first participant has joined the live communication session, modifying the display of the placeholder with a representation of the first participant.

34. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 25, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

detecting an input corresponding to selection of a representation in the representations of the second plurality of participants in the overflow region; and

in response to detecting the input corresponding to selection of a representation in the representations of the second plurality of participants in the overflow region;

replacing the display of a representation in the representations of the first plurality of the participants with a representation of the participant corresponding to the selected representation in the overflow region.

35. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 25, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

while displaying the live communication user interface, detecting a second participant in the second plurality of participants becoming a currently active participant; and

in response to detecting the second participant in the second plurality of participants becoming the currently active participant and in accordance with a determination that a representation of the second participant in the second plurality of participants is not currently displayed in the overflow region, scrolling the overflow region to display the representation of the second participant in the second plurality of participants in the overflow region.

36. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 25, wherein the overflow region further includes placeholder representations for invitees of the live communication session that are not currently connected to the live communication session.

37. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 25, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

while displaying the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session, receiving a fourth input corresponding to a request to display a menu; and

in response to receiving the fourth input;

displaying, in the user interface for the live communication session, a menu;

moving at least a third representation of the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session; and

changing the size of at least a fourth representation of the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session.

38. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 25, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

while displaying the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session, receiving an input corresponding to a request to display a first menu;

in response to receiving the input corresponding to the request to display the first menu, displaying the first menu in the live communication user interface, wherein the first menu includes an option for selecting a content item;

receiving an input corresponding to selection of a content item; and

in response to receiving the input corresponding to selection of the content item, replacing a representation of a participant displayed at a size greater than the respective threshold size with a representation of the content item at a size greater than the respective threshold size.

39. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 25, wherein displaying the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session further includes:

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes less than a second threshold number of participants, displaying at least one of the representations of the participants other than the user of the electronic device at a first aspect ratio; and

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes more than the second threshold number of participants, displaying at least one of the representations of the participants other than the user of the electronic device at a second aspect ratio, different from the first aspect ratio.

40. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 23, wherein displaying the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session further includes:

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes less than a third threshold number of participants, displaying a representation of a view of a camera of the electronic device at a third aspect ratio; and

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes more than or equal to the third threshold number of participants, displaying the representation of the view of the camera of the electronic device at a fourth aspect ratio, different from the third aspect ratio.

41. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 23, wherein displaying the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session further includes:

in accordance with the number of participants in the live communication session being a first number of participants, displaying the representations of the participants in a first layout; and

in accordance with the number of participants in the live communication session being a second number of participants, displaying the representations of the participants in a second layout, different from the second layout.

42. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 23, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

displaying, as part of the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session, a representation of a view of a camera of the electronic device at a first size;

while displaying the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session, receiving a first input corresponding to selection for displaying a first menu;

in response to receiving the input corresponding to selection for displaying the first menu, displaying the first menu in the live communication user interface, wherein the first menu includes an option for displaying a visual effect on a representation of a participant in the live communication session; and

in response to receiving a second input corresponding to selection of the option for displaying a visual effect, displaying the representation of the view of the camera of the electronic device at a second size, wherein the second size is greater than the first size.

43. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 23, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

receiving a third input corresponding to selection for enlarging a first representation in the plurality of representations of the participants in the live communication session;

in response to receiving the third input corresponding to selection for enlarging the first representation in the plurality of representations of the participants in the live communication session, enlarging the first representation; and

reducing a size of at least one representation in the plurality of representations of the participants in the live communication session that is different from the first representation.

44. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 23, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

in response to receiving first data indicating a change in orientation of the electronic device, changing the display of a first representation in the plurality of representations of the participants in the live communication session based on a position of a face in the first representation.

45. A method comprising:

at an electronic device with a display;

receiving a request to display a user interface for a live communication session between two or more participants; and

in response to receiving the request to display the user interface for the live communication session between two or more participants, displaying a live communication user interface including concurrently displaying a plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session, wherein;

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes more than a threshold number of participants, at least some of the plurality of representations of participants other than a user of the electronic device overlap each other; and

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes less than or equal to the threshold number of participants, none of the plurality of representations of participants other than the user of the electronic device overlap each other.

46. The method of claim 45, the method comprising:

after displaying the live communication session, detecting a change in relative activity levels of participants in live communication session; and

in response to detecting the change in relative activity levels of participants in live communication session;

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes more than the threshold number of participants, resizing a plurality of the representations of participants relative to each other while maintaining at least some overlapping between the plurality representation of the plurality of participants other than the user of the electronic device; and

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes less than or equal to than the threshold number of participants, maintaining the size of the plurality of representations of participants relative to each.

47. The method of claim 45, wherein displaying the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session further includes:

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes more than a second threshold number of participants, displaying representations of a first plurality of the participants other than the user of the electronic device at one or more sizes greater than a respective threshold size while displaying representations of a second plurality of the participants in an overflow region, wherein the second plurality of participants includes one or more participants not included in the first plurality of participants and the representations of the one or more other participants displayed in the overflow region are displayed at a size smaller than the respective threshold size; and

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes less than or equal to the second threshold number of participants, displaying representations of the first plurality of the participants other than the user of the electronic device at one or more sizes greater than the respective threshold size without displaying representations of participants other than the user of the electronic device at one or more sizes smaller than or equal to the respective threshold size.

48. The method of claim 47, wherein at least some of the representations of the first plurality of the participants other than the user of the electronic device overlap each other, and wherein none of the representations of the second plurality of the participants in the overflow region overlap each other.

49. The method of claim 47, the method comprising:

updating the display of the representations of the first plurality of the participants at a first rate; and

updating the display of the representations of the second plurality of the participants in the overflow region at a second rate, wherein the second rate is lower than the first rate.

50. The method of claim 47, the method comprising:

detecting an input corresponding to the overflow region; and

in response to detecting the input corresponding to the overflow region;

scrolling the overflow region to cease to display a subset of the representations of the second plurality of participants; and

while scrolling the overflow region, maintaining the display of the representation of a view of the camera of the electronic device in the overflow region.

51. The method of claim 47, the method comprising:

while displaying representations of the participants other than the user of the electronic device, receiving data indicating that the number of participants in the live communication session has increased; and

in response to receiving the data indicating that the number of participants in the live communication session has increased;

decreasing the size of one or more of the representations of participants other than the user of the electronic device; and

displaying one or more representations of new participants in the live communication session.

52. The method of claim 47, wherein the live communication session user interface further includes a placeholder associated with a first participant who has been invited to the live communication session but has not yet joined the live communication session.

53. The method of claim 52, wherein the placeholder includes a first reminder affordance for the first participant, the method comprising:

receiving an input corresponding to selection of the first reminder affordance; and

in response to receiving the input corresponding to selection of the first reminder affordance, sending a new notification to the first participant that is different from a previous notification sent to the first participant.

54. The method of claim 52, wherein the placeholder and the representations of the first plurality of the participants are arranged in a first layout, the method comprising:

in accordance with a determination that the first participant has not joined the live communication session for a predetermined amount of time;

ceasing to display the placeholder; and

changing the arrangement of the representations of the first plurality of the participants to a second layout, different from the first layout that includes enlarging and/or moving one or more of the representations of participants.

55. The method of claim 52, the method comprising:

in accordance with a determination that the first participant has joined the live communication session, modifying the display of the placeholder with a representation of the first participant.

56. The method of claim 47, the method comprising:

detecting an input corresponding to selection of a representation in the representations of the second plurality of participants in the overflow region; and

in response to detecting the input corresponding to selection of a representation in the representations of the second plurality of participants in the overflow region;

replacing the display of a representation in the representations of the first plurality of the participants with a representation of the participant corresponding to the selected representation in the overflow region.

57. The method of claim 47, the method comprising:

while displaying the live communication user interface, detecting a second participant in the second plurality of participants becoming a currently active participant; and

in response to detecting the second participant in the second plurality of participants becoming the currently active participant and in accordance with a determination that a representation of the second participant in the second plurality of participants is not currently displayed in the overflow region, scrolling the overflow region to display the representation of the second participant in the second plurality of participants in the overflow region.

58. The method of claim 47, wherein the overflow region further includes placeholder representations for invitees of the live communication session that are not currently connected to the live communication session.

59. The method of claim 47, the method comprising:

while displaying the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session, receiving a fourth input corresponding to a request to display a menu; and

in response to receiving the fourth input;

displaying, in the user interface for the live communication session, a menu;

moving at least a third representation of the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session; and

changing the size of at least a fourth representation of the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session.

60. The method of claim 47, the method comprising:

while displaying the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session, receiving an input corresponding to a request to display a first menu;

in response to receiving the input corresponding to the request to display the first menu, displaying the first menu in the live communication user interface, wherein the first menu includes an option for selecting a content item;

receiving an input corresponding to selection of a content item; and

in response to receiving the input corresponding to selection of the content item, replacing a representation of a participant displayed at a size greater than the respective threshold size with a representation of the content item at a size greater than the respective threshold size.

61. The method of claim 45, wherein displaying the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session further includes:

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes less than a second threshold number of participants, displaying at least one of the representations of the participants other than the user of the electronic device at a first aspect ratio; and

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes more than the second threshold number of participants, displaying at least one of the representations of the participants other than the user of the electronic device at a second aspect ratio, different from the first aspect ratio.

62. The method of claim 45, wherein displaying the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session further includes:

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes less than a third threshold number of participants, displaying a representation of a view of a camera of the electronic device at a third aspect ratio; and

in accordance with a determination that the number of participants in the live communication session includes more than or equal to the third threshold number of participants, displaying the representation of the view of the camera of the electronic device at a fourth aspect ratio, different from the third aspect ratio.

63. The method of claim 45, wherein displaying the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session further includes:

in accordance with the number of participants in the live communication session being a first number of participants, displaying the representations of the participants in a first layout; and

in accordance with the number of participants in the live communication session being a second number of participants, displaying the representations of the participants in a second layout, different from the second layout.

64. The method of claim 45, the method comprising:

displaying, as part of the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session, a representation of a view of a camera of the electronic device at a first size;

while displaying the plurality of representations of participants in the live communication session, receiving a first input corresponding to selection for displaying a first menu;

in response to receiving the input corresponding to selection for displaying the first menu, displaying the first menu in the live communication user interface, wherein the first menu includes an option for displaying a visual effect on a representation of a participant in the live communication session; and

in response to receiving a second input corresponding to selection of the option for displaying a visual effect, displaying the representation of the view of the camera of the electronic device at a second size, wherein the second size is greater than the first size.

65. The method of claim 45, the method comprising:

receiving a third input corresponding to selection for enlarging a first representation in the plurality of representations of the participants in the live communication session;

in response to receiving the third input corresponding to selection for enlarging the first representation in the plurality of representations of the participants in the live communication session, enlarging the first representation; and

reducing a size of at least one representation in the plurality of representations of the participants in the live communication session that is different from the first representation.

66. The method of claim 45, the method comprising:

in response to receiving first data indicating a change in orientation of the electronic device, changing the display of a first representation in the plurality of representations of the participants in the live communication session based on a position of a face in the first representation.