The main gestures (finger movements) for your iPad – Tablets Magazine

found on the iPad and iPhone, Apple’s iOS operating system, has deep integration of gestures. Gestures are movements that you can make with your fingers. An example that you probably already know, the move towards each other with two fingers to zoom in on a photo or website.

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Apple has many more gestures than just the gestures that you can use to navigate between photos and pages. Overall, these gestures can, anywhere and on any app works on iPad, divided into two categories.

Gestures with 4 or 5 fingers

The first group are the gestures that you can activate. 4 or 5 fingers These gestures are mainly about navigating between different apps. Before you can use this gestures you must first activate them in the settings menu. Going to ‘Settings’, ‘general’, then set the “multitasking gestures” to.

The first gesture that you can make now the ‘pinch to home screen’. Allows you to move an app to close and return to the home screen with all your apps. You do this to make where you go four or five fingers at the same time together. Pinch by

Squeeze with 4 or 5 fingers to close. With the second gesture, you can open the multitasking menu. It lets you quickly switch between different apps. To do this, set back 4 or 5 fingers on the screen, and then move them up. Now push as it were, the apps and opens up the multitasking screen.

by 4 or 5 fingers up, open the multitasking menu.

Finally, you can still switch between apps. By moving four or five fingers to the left or right, you go to the next or previous app you had open. The apps are sorted in order of last opened up just like in the multitasking menu. So you can quickly and easily access the previous app.

Gestures with 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 fingers

Then there are two gestures you with 1, 2 , 3, 4 or 5 fingers to use. These gestures are about controlling the settings on your iPad, not apps. You can use them anywhere, even if you have your iPhone is not unlocked yet.

Swipe up to open the Control Center

The first is sweeping from the very bottom of your screen to the top. The Control Center will now open. From here you can adjust the volume, set a different song or pause, adjust certain settings such as Bluetooth and the clock app or open the camera app. Pressing the home button or tapping the surface outside the Control Center you close the Control Center again.

The second gesture that you can open 2, 3, 4 or 5 fingers with 1, is the notification panel. It shows all the notifications that you have had. Also see which notifications you missed and ‘today’ you see a brief overview of your day including the weather and appointments you have. The notification panel you can open up your screen by sliding down. From the edge The notification panel you connect by using the home button or by dragging him again. Up

Gesture Spotlight

Then there is a bit of a different gesture, the gesture Spotlight lets you open. With Spotlight, you can search your iPad, for example apps, but also notes that you have made or e-mails that you have had. To open Spotlight pull with 1, 2 or 3 fingers on the home screen down from about half of the page. Now the keyboard will appear and you can enter a search term to search through your iPad.

From left to right

A final gesture that almost works everywhere drag from right to left, or vice versa. This gesture works in most apps, such as Safari, but also messages and mail. By sliding your finger from the left side to the right for example, you open Mail in the list of recent messages when you use (standing) your iPad in portrait mode. In messages you drag from right to left to see which messages are sent. Times

We will soon publish a number of articles that deal with the gestures for specific applications, including the Safari browser.

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