iPAD AND iPHONE TIPS AND TRICKS

One of the many things that originally set the iPhone apart from its competition, and later made the iPad the world’s most sought-after tablet, was the touchscreen built in to these devices. Using a series of onscreen taps, swipes, and finger movements, it’s possible to interact with all of your device’s apps and handle a wide range of tasks without needing a traditional keyboard or a stylus.

NEW AND IMPROVED TOUCHSCREEN TECHNIQUES
From the moment you turn on your iPhone or iPad (or take it out of Sleep mode, which is also referred to as Standby mode), aside from pressing the Home button to return to the Home screen at any time, virtually all of your interaction with the tablet is done through the following finger movements and taps on the device’s highly sensitive touchscreen:

• Tap: Tapping an icon or a link that’s displayed on your device’s screen serves the same purpose as clicking the mouse when you use your main computer. And, just as when you use a computer, you can single-tap or double-tap, which is equivalent to a single or double click of the mouse.
• Hold: Instead of a quick tap, in some cases, it is necessary to press and hold your finger on an icon or onscreen command option. When a hold action is required, place your finger on the appropriate icon or command option and hold it there. There’s never a need to press down hard on the touch screen.
• Swipe: A swipe refers to quickly moving a finger along the screen from right to left, left to right, top to bottom, or bottom to top, to scroll to the left, right,down, or up, respectively, depending on which app you’re using.
• Pinch: Using your thumb and index finger (the finger next to your thumb), perform a pinch motion on the touchscreen to zoom out when using certain apps. Or “unpinch” (by moving your fingers apart quickly) to zoom in on what you’re looking at on the screen when using most apps.

TIP Another way to zoom in or out when looking at the device’s screen is to double-tap the area of the screen on which you want to zoom in. This works when you’re surfing the Web in Safari or looking at photos using the Photos app, as well as within other apps that support the zoom in/out feature.

• Pull-Down: Using your index finger, swipe it from the very top of the iPhone or iPad quickly downward onto the screen. This will cause the new Notification Center window to appear, alerting you of incoming email messages, text messages, alarms, or other time-sensitive actions that need to be dealt with.You can be holding the device in portrait or landscape mode for this to work.To make this window disappear, tap anywhere on the screen outside the Notification Center window, or on the iPhone, place your finger on the icon with three horizontal lines and use a swipe up movement.
• Finger Pinch (iPad Only): To exit any app and return to the Home Screen, place all five fingertips of one hand on the screen so that they’re spread out, and then draw your fingers together, as if you’re grabbing something. Be sure, however, that the new multitasking features are turned on from within the Settings app (found under the General heading).
• Swipe-Up (iPad Only): Make the multitasking bar appear at the bottom of the screen by using several of your fingers and swiping them upward, from the very bottom of the screen toward the top. (Or press the Home button twice in quick succession.)
• Multi-Finger Horizontal Swipe (iPad Only): When multiple apps are simultaneously running, swipe several fingers from left to right or from right to left on the screen to switch between active apps.You can also use several of your fingers together and swipe left or right when looking at the multitasking bar to switch between active apps.

TIP To wake up your iPhone when it is in Sleep mode, typically you would tap on the Home button once. However, now that you’re running iOS 5, when you double-tap on the Home button, the Lock Screen reveals a Camera icon and Music Control icons. Tap on the Camera icon to launch the Camera app, and then use the Volume Up (+) button on the side of the iPhone to quickly snap a photo. Or, use the music controls to play, pause, fast forward, or rewind music from an active playlist.On the iPad, when you double-tap on the Home button when the tablet is in Sleep mode, the music controls appear at the top of the Lock Screen.