Pinch: To zoom in or to open something, place your thumb and index finger, pinched together, on screen and spread them apart. To zoom in or out, you’ll use the pinch gesture (also referred to as pinch-to-zoom). Why make the clarification? In this book, we refer several times to “swiping right” to bring up a left-hand navigational bar-which can be confusing to parse, if you don’t know about inverse gestures. This makes perfect sense in the real world, but coming from a computer, where scrolling down on a trackpad or mouse actually scrolls the window down, it can be a bit disorienting at first. One note of caution: All flicking and swiping on your device is inverse, meaning that when you move your finger down (in other words, swipe down), you’re actually moving whatever is on the screen upward. If you want to get to the bottom of a page quickly, just flick your finger upward in a fast motion.

A flick is just like a swipe, only faster: Your device supports inertial scrolling, which means that the faster or slower you move your finger, the faster or slower content will move. It’s one of the easiest gestures to learn. Dragging also comes into play for moving objects in apps, drawing, and swiping and flicking.ĭrag your finger across the screen, up, down, left, or right, to swipe.įlick and swipe: Swiping is one of your primary navigational tools: You use a left or right swipe to move through app pages on your Home screen or images in the Photos app you use an up or down swipe to read text in Safari, iBooks, Newsstand, or elsewhere. You can tap, hold, and, while holding down, drag your finger to increase or decrease the selection. When you do this on a piece of text, it will highlight in blue, and editing handles-vertical lines with blue dots-will appear on either side of the highlighted area.

Tap, hold, and drag: For some functions, such as highlighting text, copying and pasting, or deleting and moving apps, you’ll need to tap and hold down on the screen.

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