3 Gestures
Navigating is more fun with gestures. So here’s a few:
- Return Home: To leave your current app, swipe up with four or five fingers. You can also swipe up with one finger from the bottom of the screen (iPhone X style). Lastly, you can pinch the app using four to five fingers.
- View open apps: To open the App Switcher, swipe up with four or five fingers from the Home Screen, double-tap the Home button, or swipe up with one finger and pause (similar to iPhone X).
- Switch between apps: Swipe left or right with four to five fingers to switch between open apps.
- Access Control Center: Just swipe down from the top-right corner of the screen.
- Access Notification Center: Just swipe down from the center of the screen.
- Move the text cursor: Hold the spacebar and drag your finger or drag two fingers across the keyboard.
- Select text: Position the cursor over the text you want to select. Tap the keyboard once with two fingers to select a word, twice to select a sentence, or three times to select the paragraph. You can also tap the keyboard twice and drag to select specific parts of text.
- Handy keyboard shortcut: You can access some characters with a simple swipe. For example, swipe down on the “p” to get the “0” or the “v” for “=“.
- Recent files: Press and hold the Files app to see and select recent files.