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You make gestures in two areas on your phone: the touchscreen and the
gesture area. The gesture area is the black area extending along the bottom
of the screen.
* Gesture area
When you're working in an application, the center of the gesture area
displays a lighted bar.
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Tap the bar to minimize the app and display Card view (see
open applications (Card
view)).
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The lighted bar also appears when you tap the center of the gesture area
to maximize a card in Card view.
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When the screen is off, the lighted bar pulses when a notification arrives
and continues to pulse until you tap the notification or turn on the screen
(see
Get notifications when the screen is locked or
Display all
off).
Basic gestures
Tap:
Tap with the tip of the finger, not the fingernail. Tap fast and firmly, and
then immediately lift your fingertip off the screen. Don't bear down on what
you're tapping. Don't wait for a response; the response comes after you lift
your finger. Don't linger on the gesture; a tap takes a split second to do.
Tap the center of the gesture area to do the following:
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When you're working in an application, tap the center of the gesture area
to see Card view. Card view shows you all the applications that are
currently open, displayed as a series of cards (small windows).
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When you're in Card view, tap the center of the gesture area to maximize
the app in the center of the view.
Swipe:
A swipe is most often a horizontal gesture, from right to left or left to
right. Do it fast, do it lightly. In a swipe, your fingertip just skims the surface
of the touchscreen or gesture area.
One kind of swipe you'll use a lot: back. Make the back gesture from right to
left anywhere in the gesture area. Back takes you up one level from a
detailed view to a more general view of the application you're working in.
For example, when you finish reading an email message, make the back
gesture to close the message and return to your list of messages. Or when
you finish writing a memo, make the back gesture to close and save the
memo and return to the display of all your memos. When you make the
back gesture in an application and that's the only screen of that app that's
open, you minimize the app and go back to Card view.
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