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Essentials
Basic Gestures
Basic Gestures and Shortcuts
This feature may vary by device.
Air Gestures
You can navigate on your device using air gestures, without having to touch the screen. For
example, you can use air gestures to take a screenshot, scroll up or down, answer a call, or
pause audio/video playback.
Go to Settings > Accessibility features > Smart Sensing, and make sure that Air scroll,
Grabshot, or Air press is enabled.
Grabshot
To take a screenshot using air gestures:
Hold your palm about half an arm's length (20–40 cm, or 8–16
inches) away from the screen, until
the screen, then make a fist.
Air press
To answer a call, or pause/resume audio/video playback using
air gestures:
Hold your palm about 30–40 cm (12–16 inches) away from the
screen until
appears at the top of the screen, move your
palm closer to the screen, and stop when it is about 5 cm (2
inches) away from the screen.
To resume playback, repeat the preceding operation.
Air press only takes effect for video playback in the Video
app.
You will not be able to use Air press to control audio
playback in the following scenarios:
The screen is locked, and the music control is not
•
displayed on the lock screen.
The music player is running in the background when
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another app is open.
The music player is opened for the first time after your
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device is powered on, and no music is playing.
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