20 Gestures EVERY iPhone owner should know (but probably don't!)

[@ProperHonestTech]

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[@matt007]

You can always swipe right and left in the calculator app to delete digits. Great video as usual!

[@pamcadd8658]

Tom, I learn something from every one of your videos - thanks! In fact, I save them in a YT tech support playlist for future reference. My young adult granddaughter thinks her 75 yo nana is a luddite, so I really appreciate your help in keeping up!

[@chriswestphal26]

One tip that Im surprised more people don’t know about is if you scroll down a page in any app, if you tap in the space above the Dynamic Island and below the earpiece, it will automatically scroll you back to the top of the page.

[@LiamApilado]

Cheers!

[@n00b_ninja]

You can tap anywhere in that notification bar area and it'll scroll up.

[@nirnullz]

Yeah this is really handy feature, miss it when i am using android phone

[@seguincougar73]

Yeah but I hate the fact that if you do this, I don’t know if a gesture to automatically go back down though… now I have to scroll for 5 minutes with 30 swipes up

[@suzispringfield7376]

As a newly qualified OAP, I find your videos absolutely brilliant. Clear, concise and no distracting Muzak! … thank you so much; you’ve just gained a new subscriber! Thanks again 😊

[@gwyndyr32]

I love these videos! Even though I have been using iPhone since the 3G, every one of your videos contains multiple things I did not know so have shared them with many friends as well. Thanks for your excellent content.

[@87detto]

The best feature for navigating and moving the cursor was actually with 3D touch which Apple ditched for no good reason. You could press hard onto the display to activate it and then move across the whole screen to move the cursor around. The implementation was so fast and precise that it was like a mouse on a PC compared to a trackpad. I still miss that feature , as the spacebar thingy is just not as fast and precise.

[@Nekotaku_TV]

Yeah, I just upgraded from 6S to 13 Pro and I miss that the most. I knew I was gonna lose it and I'm glad you can still move the cursor but it's much worse for the reasons you mentioned but a lot because you can't select words with one finger. You can select but only if you use another finger but it's really weird so might as well tap the word or erase it with backspace. It shouldn't have been removed but the reason was to make the screen thinner.

[@alisultanabdullah6924]

In gallery or in any other app to move all the way up you can tap on time in the toolbar section

[@andicampbell8621]

As a new Apple customer, this is another great and very helpful video. Thanks 👍

[@dianeloehr6203]

Double tap on the back to open the camera is a game changer. Thanks

[@gordonb1737]

The lack of universal back gesture and needing to swipe from the very top of the screen to open notifications are the 2 main things giving me 2nd thoughts about going all in with Apple. Bought the I-Pad mini and realized those are missing. I figured for sure they would be present on the phone, I mean, it is 2024. But no. Those are big phones. Phones are meant to be operated comfortably with one hand

[@a-shaw-photo]

How about swiping between apps by simply swiping on the bottom bar? No swiping up to open the app tray; just swipe left and right on the ever-visible thin grey bar. If you don’t interact with the app you swipe to, the previous app will be to the right. If you _do_ interact with the app, it changes behaviour and will be on the left side. It stores the ‘last interacted with app’ on the far right. Try it 🙂

[@mrwjs]

Good stuff, as usual! Thanks!

[@atzimtzum]

10:06 you can also swipe up and browse through your tabs like the app switcher.

[@patriciarivas5369]

I actually knew a couple of them! I find your site full of great information!

[@kdub175]

2:25 this is interesting, I almost always try to keep a clean “opened apps” amount. I always felt that the more you have running, the more stain on your power and processing. It seriously is harder on to phone to close then out rather than just leave them running?

[@RaquelWright-r7u]

Very good video. I have learned a lot that I didn’t know about my iPhone. Thanks for sharing

[@sikeremix17]

I have already known someways but after I watched your videos, I gained new experiences. So thank you 🎉

[@atharvatikhe7597]

7:15 Im not sure if this is the intended use but I use the three finger copy/paste between my iPhone and Mac (ofc the shared clipboard has to be on)

[@clarewillison9379]

Copy-pasting between devices is my favourite ‘I’m really living in Star Trek at last” feature. Gives me a little thrill every time. (It’s a quiet life.)😅

[@lindaj5492]

1:12 I found (by accident) that I could use the little bars at both ends of the highlighted text to extend or reduce the area highlighted: just press, hold & drag on the little bar.

[@mjears]

I did learn some new ones! (1-finger map zoom and volume, stacks, and tap-&-drag to scroll.) 3-finger push to Paste was my favorite recent discovery - much easier than carefully placing the cursor to get the little menu, now that the magnifier is gone.

[@willemvanderschans369]

Thanks a lot! Learned some new things here today! One further tip: if you swipe from left to right on a message you will answer it right away! 😃 And if you swipe from left to right on the bottom of the screen you can change between apps just like in safari between the internet pages. You can even swipe back if you do it within approximately 3 seconds. 👌

[@AndrewMclave]

You can also use both the double and triple back tap to do two different things. I use the double tap to open up control centre and the triple tap to take a screenshot. It’s one of the most powerful tools Apple has given us and is infinitely more powerful than the action button alone. I use it nearly every day for both options!

[@dullaf4099]

How does that work? Triple tap takes a screenshot?

[@sandrahanna934]

Is that a quick way to select and delete messages within one user?

[@amylwallace66]

I’ve seen the swiping left or right on a page before but I sometimes can’t get it quite right and it’ll wiggle instead and not swipe overboard

[@marietait9972]

For years I have wondered how to type the degree symbol. I mow know, thank you.

[@Ninja4Hiya-Xbox]

The pinch and push to copy and paste makes sense when you think of copy and pasting to a different device. Picking up the words and dropping them on the next screen.

[@justspaztik]

I knew about half of these, but the undo trick and the copy and paste trick are new for me. Holy cow that's freakin' cool!

[@dullaf4099]

You can “redo” by swiping 3 fingers left to right. K

[@sperl42]

Drag and drop doesn't work on my Xr. When I keep selected an image so I can move it around I cannot do the home swipe. Something to enable or a Xr limitation?

[@terohann]

Swipe the bottom of the screen left or right to switch between recent apps. Works with older devices also if you first "lift" slightly from the bottom of the screen before swiping.

[@TCRS16]

In the settings app, if you are in a deep submenu, you can also hold the button in the top to go back up more levels at once...

[@WilfulFox]

For text selection, there’s another method which I use all the time. Double tap on the first word you want to select, but keep your finger on the screen on the second tap. Then, drag your finger across the text you want to select - up or down, or just swiping to the side if it’s just a few words. Incredibly quick once you get the hang of it, and perfect for selecting bits of sentences, a paragraph or whatever.

[@juju1896]

WOW! Thank you!

[@drvoodoo3073]

I didn’t know many of the Notes gestures, thanks!

[@SoyElDiabloRojo]

Wonderful video, as usual. I'm not sure how I didn't find Back Tap before, but it's like having two new "action" buttons! Now to make it practical or to make it cause my car to perform an "emissions test." 🤔

[@bonnieleighton8280]

I love watching your channel. It never fails to blow my mind with my iPhone will do if I just knew how to do it. Thank you.

[@evanthomas8320]

Pinch copy/paste use case: when I try to copy a url, it preselects the entire thing when selecting the address bar. I have to deselect it and triple tap just right to get it to reselect the entire thing and give me the haptic menu. With the pinch copy, I can just pinch whenever text is selected. I recognize this is somewhat of a niche case, but being a recent android convert, this is the only way I could find to copy without deselecting and dragging the cursors.

[@AllenAngle]

Great content!! Question on Back Tap, can that be set up for a Screen Recording? Looking for a quick way to do a Screen Recording without going to Control Center.

[@Artsywasthefirst-sandra]

Thank you for your sharing in your videos and always in a perfectly understandable English .

[@supersishah]

Why v cannot pause video recording on an iphone? If we can then how we can do it?? Please guide.

[@tosa1222]

I am new on The iPhone world. But with your Chanel Im already almost a Profi. Tranks a lot

[@moccasinlanding]

I like to use emoji instead of the other options for my CONTACTS, which are commercial enterprises or casual acquaintances with NO personal photo in my iPhone......and now I cannot do this.....or is it possible still to do so and HOW?

[@aszab1239]

Hi! You mentioned you don't understand the pinch copy and paste. It's really simple. It's for the ecosystem. If you copy something using the three finger pinch, it copies it across all your devices, so you can paste it in anywhere. Hope that helps!

[@MartinSchlender]

The 3-finger pinch I sometimes use if there is no way of pasting things. Just because the option is missing.

[@aaaaaa-qc9ot]

The trick at 11:46 does not work with me. Should I enable anything?

[@were_all_fact6026]

Quick double tap at the very top of the screen will jump you back to the top of the page. Now if there a quick way to the bottom ? Besides the scroll bar, which was useful btw

[@maureenbrown3139]

So glad you showed the easy way of how to move an app to another page.👌

[@Jbiglin]

Thanks! I knew most of these but learned a couple I was unaware of and another 3 I had forgotten about. Well done!

[@amylwallace66]

I’m trying use the technique within the photos app for selecting multiple images diagonally. I am able to do this from lower corners but when I try the top left down diagonally, the photos just go up and down. Am I doing something wrong or maybe a setting.

[@deleted_why]

The most important thing I learned on this video was REACHABILITY!! AND that it can be set to function from a button!! Great News!

[@deleted_why]

All Android users experience experience a lack of REACHABILITY since their back button WAS bottom right whereas Apple has it placed top left. Make a video on JUST THAT ONE GESTURE and you will double your subscriptions in a month!

[@mjsboda777]

I didn't know of any of these iphone. secrets. Thank you for all of your information It's very informative and very educational. I hope I can remember half of what you just said on your video I will just have to look at this video over and over again and try to remember all the secrets that my iphone could do. Thanks again.

[@AlanAnt]

Learned a bunch of new things from this video. Thanks.

[@ProperHonestTech]

You're welcome - Glad you're enjoying the content! 🙌🏻

[@stevenlam6637]

One handed zoom in Maps is incredibly helpful! Thank you!!

[@yolowhoot2599]

When you use the spacebar as a trackpad you can actually use your other finger to select text. Place your cursor where you want to start selecting text by holding the spacebar with finger1 and then touch the keyboard with finger2 while still holding finger1, then use finger1 to place the cursor wherever you want and in so doing selecting the text in between.

[@SpaceBass11]

@@yolowhoot2599 nice 👍

[@ericedsmith]

I would actually use Pinch & Paste! I have a virtual hangout with a friend every few weeks where we call and listen to music via her stream, and I make a list of songs to show her in notes and many are multiple songs of the same artist.

[@asyahassahrah]

im sorry out of the topic but i hv a question about widget. i wanna put my calculator on my widget but there's no option for it when i try to add a stack. i can pick another app but there's no option for calculator app and i can't even do the search. is there any solution?

[@PurpleCowboyTV]

Regarding the “Undo” feature, it’s good to note you can do multiple Undo requests, by shaking after each Undo command is selected.

[@vikaspadala3901]

Amazing content as always. I look forward to your next video very eagerly.

[@kellynorthadams5140]

I know this is COMPLETELY off topic, but where did you get your desk pad, it's really nice!

[@ProperHonestTech]

It's actually just a really cheap one from Amazon - amzn.eu/d/8fwrfA4

[@jaynekilbride5620]

Great information. I’ll try these. Thanks.

[@PurpleCowboyTV]

It’s good to note that, double and triple tapping only works when you have the keyboard visible/the cursor blinking. This won’t work if you are in “reading mode” (for example in Notes).

[@droopy_911]

Flawless, high quality like always. Love and regards from India, mate

[@boudie7042]

You've got yourself a new subscriber good sir. that was an amazing video

[@carlosmayorga1738]

Thank you sir.

[@CK-qf7mn]

So cool! Thank you so much for this informative video on iPhone gestures. You’ve just made life so much better by reducing time needed to do various tasks. I also tried some gestures on the iPad which also work 👍👍👍👍

[@TechnoWorld-pg7tv]

Thank you for the video. I would like to find a way to select all the text in a safari page like ctrl+a in windows. Is there way for it. Like the one you showed for Notes (triple touch)

[@adelbali97]

Could you share your wallpaper?

[@kevinc1956]

Thanks, I appreciate the tips. I'm still learning new shortcuts occasionally. I've been an Apple user since the original iPad and the iPhone 6; Currently have an iPhone 13 and an iPad Pro Gen 1. I will probably upgrade to the new iPad Pro and latest iPhone next year to transition to USB C connections.

[@kasziel]

The swiping to navigate works also in other apps, not only settings. I did know them all but the one to select a bunch of emails with two fingers which I’m t totally going to use now! Tried the copy and push with pictures cause it works also between different devices (an iPhone and an iPad for example) but it wasn’t really reliable.

[@rienzitrento8397]

I am going abroad can you show us how to use the iPhone abroad using notes, translate. Keep up the good work

[@TameraReynoldson]

Thank you!

[@teresacahlik6887]

I’m having trouble texting groups with android phones. It sends to individuals but I sent in group. Then all their replies come back to me individually. It is a pain. I have an iPhone 13 and use Spectrum service. A tech there told me it was a Samsung update that wasn’t friendly with iPhones. Not sure if it is spectrum or Samsung but my phone has been checked and rechecked. I have done a factory reset but still have the issue. Do you have any ideas for me to deal with this?

[@markdcmountp]

I’m conflicted on who to believe when you say that the IPhones operate best while leaving apps running in the background ? Everyone Else I’ve watched says the opposite and that It hurts the battery?

[@CreachterZ]

Believe Apple. They intend for you to leave apps open. They basically hibernate. Starting up a closed app uses far greater resources. The only caveat I’ve found to this are apps you’ve allowed to track your location in the background.

[@a-shaw-photo]

Apparently… After an undefined period of time, Apple puts background apps into an idle state; they are ready to be used, but consume barely anything in RAM or battery. Compare that to the energy used when closing an app and opening it again (whenever that is) and according to Apple, it’s more power and therefore battery efficient do to the former. Personally, I leave apps open all the time, and every few days I go to the far left and close apps which I know I won’t open again for weeks.

[@paulpendyck9438]

Love your videos. Professional and informative. Are there any apps that you should not leave open for fear of using battery? I used to regularly close all apps but after your advice now leave them all open

[@a-shaw-photo]

Personally, I leave apps open all the time, and every few days I go to the far left and close apps which I’m confident I won’t open again for weeks.

[@JaRuggierojr]

I learned some very useful tips. Thank you.

[@golfgrouch]

I wish they could think of better gestures for copy and paste. Three finger gestures are too difficult on small phones.

[@rllaneso]

Thank you! Great tips, great channel! 🎉

[@susan9553]

Great tips for this senior. 👍

[@vedanshchn]

8:04 This is my favorite! I use it everyday to delete junk SMSes and emails!

[@scottboettcher1344]

Another one bookmarked to watch a couple more times; thank you!

[@DavidBoe]

It’s great fun to watch this on an iPad while (or whilst-I’m American and we don’t say whilst, but you make it sound cool) simultaneously duplicating your actions on my iPhone. The only difficulty is that the content is so dense and goes by so fast that by the time I can do it you’re already on to the next one! (Or even the next two.) This isn’t a criticism; it’s easy enough to pause and back up the video. But maybe you could do another version of the same content (or edit an existing video) to be 2x to 4x longer, giving people more time to find their way along with you. It’s truly great content! Perhaps you could get twice as many views by creating a slowed down version which makes it easier to follow along. I’d even be tempted to watch it at half speed if such an option existed. This could also be an accessibility feature, since your amazing instructions sometimes go by so quickly that it’s hard to keep up. Again, this is not a criticism; your content is among (amongst?) the best I’ve ever seen online. Considering that by “online” I’m referencing the sum total of human experience across millennia, that’s high praise indeed.

[@PawaleAmit-eq1dq]

Very useful sir

[@Renegade_2023]

Always learn something new! Thanks 🙏

[@MrBarrySugarman]

Very helpful video, thanks!!

[@atephoto]

9:18 also one tip is to use two fingers and moving cursor around with more precision. Love it. Great video.

[@budgetaudiophilelife-long5461]

THANKS PROPER 🤗 PRACTICAL TIPS 👍

[@mk_mlt]

Great tips, thanks!

[@PrakashamOnline]

Use spacebar to select text : press and hold spacebar and touch the keyboard once with other finger, now just drag and select text. Quick insert special characters: while typing click on Number key and drag to the character/number and release.

[@OhHel65]

Great stuff. Thank you.

[@fulcrum8108]

you can swipe to go back in just about any app

[@rahkkas]

Using spacebar as a trackpad is dope feature !! I was bewildered to discover this !!

[@jasonjohnston94]

I can add one more gesture when it comes to KZbin videos. Tap and hold on a video with one finger while it plays and the video play will automatically speed up 2X. Release and normal play resumes.

[@reesnordrhein7486]

Ah - het lang indrukken van de terug-knop binnen Safari kende ik nog niet. Handig ! Dankjewel

[@davidbeckett1565]

Great video which is very handy, thanks

[@deetrvl4life875]

Thanks so much! I saved this one in my favs file, 'cause once is just not enough! ;) ♥

[@vishvakant]

I recently transferred to iOS from android i knew everything in the video except the safari back button hold feature Thanks man

[@KingLipz]

Hold down back button on safari 🤯🤯🤯🤯 Thanks for the tips boss, cheers!

[@Lorichs]

Lots of grest tips here. Also: Swipe back on the calculator to delete numbers

[@loubano]

Your are the best !!!! Thanks you very much

[@TheINKspiredLife]

Fab tips! Thanks for sharing.

[@lynnbartlett4185]

Just brilliant as always