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Swiping is normally used to bring a menu onto the screen, switch between windows, or
other large-scale actions that involve most or all of the screen.
“Two-finger swipe”: Just like a regular swipe, but with two fingertips instead of just one.
Sometimes you’ll even see apps that ask for a three-finger swipe, but this is pretty rare.
“Pinch”: Sometimes simply referred to as “zoom” and the two terms are often combined
into “pinch-to-zoom”. Google sometimes calls it “scale”. This refers to placing two
fingertips on the screen and either pinching them together or spreading them apart to
change the size of something, usually a picture or a web page. Note that you can often
rotate an image with this gesture as well as zoom.
Those Three Buttons
At the bottom of the screen you’ll find three buttons.
Here’s what they do.
Back: This does exactly what its name suggests; it takes you back one step. If you
called up a sub-menu, for example, and wanted to go back to the previous menu, just
tap the Back button one time to do that. If you tap Back enough times, you will eventual-
ly work all the way to your Home screen, so this is another way of getting back to familiar
territory if you’re lost.
Home: Tapping the Home button will always take you back to your Home screen, the
“center” screen in the pages of icons you can have on your phone. If you’re lost, tap
Home and you’ll be taken back to familiar territory!
Recent Apps: Tapping this button brings up the “Recent Apps” menu. This is a vertical
list of apps that are currently active. You can slide the list up and down to see the whole
list. Slide an app’s picture off the screen (left or right works) to make it inactive. This is
often referred to as “killing” or “force-quitting” an app, and it’s a useful thing to know as
doing so can solve many problems with a misbehaving app!
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