User's Manual

ANDROID QUICK START GUIDE WELCOME TO ANDROID 13
To move between Home screens, slide toward the edge of the screen.
To bump another icon out of the way, slide slowly into it.
3. Lift your finger.
Touch & type
To select or activate something, touch it.
To type something, such as a name, password, or search terms, just
touch where you want to type. A keyboard pops up that lets you type
into the field.
Other common gestures include:
• Touch & hold. To select an item, touch & hold it by not lifting your
finger until something happens. This is how you access accent and
other special characters on the keyboard. Slide your finger to the
accented letter you need.
• Touch, hold, & drag. Touch & hold an item for a moment and then,
without lifting your finger, move your finger on the screen until you
reach the target position. You can move apps around on the Home
screen.
• Swipe or slide. Quickly move your finger across the surface of the
screen, without pausing when you first touch (so you don’t drag
something instead). Slide a Home screen left or right to view the
other Home screens.
• Double-tap. Tap quickly twice on a map or image to zoom in and out.
• Scale. In some apps (such as Maps, Chrome, and Photos), you can
scale by placing two or more fingers on the screen at once and
pinching them together (to enlarge scale) or spreading them apart (to
reduce it).
• Rotate the screen. The orientation of most screens rotates with your
device as you turn it. To keep your screen locked in Portrait mode,