tools and discussed later in this chapter).
DISCOVER 3D TOUCH AND QUICK ACTIONS
3D Touch allows you to get different results depending on the amount of pressure you apply to the screen, and get feedback on your actions with taps from the screen. For example, if you open the Photos app, you can tap lightly to select a photo, press a bit harder to see a preview of that photo, and press even harder to open the photo full screen. The ability to preview such items as emails, websites, maps, and photos before opening them can save you time. The medium press is called a Peek and the hard press is called a Pop.
Quick Actions involve pressing an icon on the screen to see items you’re likely to want to select. For example, if you press on the Phone icon, you’ll get a shortcut list of commonly called contacts. If you press on the Maps app, you see a list of places you often go, such as your home, to quickly display a map of that location. Quick Actions provide a shortcut menu to your most frequently used items, saving you time and effort.
Say Hello to Tap and Swipe
You can use several methods for getting around and getting things done in iPhone using its Multi-Touch screen, including
❯❯ Tap once. To open an application on the Home screen, choose a field, such as a search box, choose an item in a list, use an arrow to move back or forward one screen, or follow an online link, tap the item once with your finger.
❯❯ Tap twice. Use this method to enlarge or reduce the display of a web page (see Chapter 11 for more about using the Safari web browser) or to zoom in or out in the Maps app.
❯❯ Pinch. As an alternative to the tap-twice method, you can pinch your fingers together or move them apart on the screen (see Figure 2-3) when you’re looking at photos, maps, web pages, or email messages to quickly reduce or enlarge them, respectively. This method allows you to grow or contract the screen to a variety of sizes rather than a fixed size, as with the double-tap method.
❯❯ Drag to scroll (known as swiping). When you touch your finger to the screen and drag to the right or left, the screen moves (see Figure 2-4). Swiping to the left on the Home screen, for example, moves you to the next Home screen. Swiping down while reading an online newspaper moves you down the page; swiping up moves you back up the page.
❯❯ Flick. To scroll more quickly on a page, quickly flick your finger on the screen in the direction you want to move.
❯❯ Tap the Status bar. To move quickly to the top of a list, web page, or email message, tap the Status bar at the top of the iPhone screen. (For some sites, you have to tap twice to get this to work.)
❯❯ Press and hold. If you’re using Notes or Mail or any other application that lets you select text, or if you’re on a web page, pressing and holding text selects a word and displays editing tools that you can use to select, cut, or copy and paste the text.
Your iPhone offers the ability to perform bezel gestures, which involves sliding from the very outer edge of the phone left to right on the glass to go backward and sliding right to left to go forward in certain apps.
❯❯ Tap the Safari button in the Dock at the bottom of any iPhone Home screen to display the web browser.
❯❯ Tap a link to move to another page.
❯❯ Double-tap the page to enlarge it; then pinch your fingers together on the screen to reduce its size.
❯❯ Drag one finger around the page to scroll.
❯❯ Flick your finger quickly on the page to scroll more quickly.
❯❯ Press and hold your finger on a word that isn’t a link (links take you to another location on the web).
The word is selected, and the Copy/Look Up/Speak/Share/Spell tool is displayed, as shown in Figure 2-5. (You can use this tool to either get a definition of a word or copy it.)
❯❯ Press and hold your finger on a link or an image.
A menu appears (shown in Figure 2-6) with commands that you select to open the link or picture, open it in a new tab, add it to your Reading List (see Chapter 11), or copy it. If you press and hold an image, the menu also offers the Save Image command.
Tap Cancel to close the menu without making a selection.
❯❯ Position your fingers slightly apart on the screen and then pinch your fingers together to reduce the page; with your fingers already pinched together on the screen, move them apart to enlarge the page.
❯❯ Press the Home button to go back to the Home screen.
Display and Use the Onscreen Keyboard
The built-in iPhone keyboard appears whenever you’re in a text-entry location, such as a search field or an email message form. Follow these steps to display and use the keyboard:
1. Tap the Notes icon on the Home screen to open the Notes app.
2. Open
