User's Manual

10 Chapter 1 : Basics
2 Move your finger to the application icon. When you see the app name
appear, lift your finger. The application opens.
Open an application in the Launcher
The Launcher displays all your applications that are not on Quick Launch.
The Launcher includes multiple pages, which you can organize to group
apps the way you want (see Reorder Launcher icons).
1 Tap the center of the gesture area to open Card view, and tap .
2 To find the app you want, swipe up or down to see all the icons on a
page. Swipe left or right to see other pages.
3 Tap the application icon.
To close the Launcher, do one of the following:
• Tap the center of the gesture area.
• Ta p .
• Make the up gesture: Flick up from the gesture area to the screen.
Open an application using search
1 Tap the center of the gesture area to open Card view.
2 Enter the name of or a keyword for the application (see Universal
search application keywords).
3 When the application icon appears in the search results, tap it.
Work with applications
Go up one level in an app (back gesture)
The back gesture takes you up one level from a detailed level 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.
To make the back gesture, swipe right to left anywhere in the gesture area.
Display all open applications (Card view)
Card view displays open applications as small cards, so that you can easily
scroll through them and drag them to change their order.
When an application fills the screen and you want to go to Card view, do
one of the following:
• Tap the center of the gesture area.
• Make the up gesture: Flick up from the gesture area to the screen.
Move among open applications
1 In Card view, swipe left or right on the screen to see other open apps.
TIP You can also open the Launcher by flicking up twice from the gesture
area to the screen. If you are in Card view, just flick up once to open the
Launcher.