Patent ID: 8091045

Claim:
A method, comprising: at a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display: displaying a list of items on the touch screen display; while displaying the list of items, detecting a gesture on the touch screen display to initiate an edit mode; in response to detecting the gesture to initiate the edit mode: maintaining display of the list, and displaying separate moving-affordance icons and deletion icons for each corresponding item in the list; detecting a contact on a moving-affordance icon; detecting movement of the contact while the contact is on the moving-affordance icon; in response to detecting the movement of the contact while the contact is on the moving-affordance icon, moving the moving-affordance icon and the corresponding item in the list in accordance with the movement of the contact; detecting a break of the contact on the touch screen display at a break location on the touch screen display; in response to detecting the break, placing the corresponding item in the list at a position corresponding to the break location on the touch screen display; detecting a gesture on a deletion icon for a respective item in the list; in response to detecting the gesture on the deletion icon for the respective item in the list, initiating a deletion process to delete the respective item in the list; after placing the corresponding item in the list at the position corresponding to the break location on the touch screen display and after initiating the deletion process to delete the respective item in the list, displaying a modified list of items; while displaying the modified list of items, detecting a gesture on the touch screen display to complete the edit mode; in response to detecting the gesture to complete the edit mode, ceasing to display the moving-affordance icons and the deletion icons and maintaining display of the modified list of items.