7 Android gestures you may not know yet

Gestures make smartphone use faster and more efficient, but not everyone knows these gestures. This article will introduce seven Android gestures you may not know yet.

1. Delete the icon and widget quickly from the main screen

The main screen doesn't have many icons and widgets that look clean and neat. If you want to clean up the main screen, you can use the following tip. Instead of clicking the icon or widget and dragging it to the top of the screen (where the X mark is located), simply press and hold the icon, then quickly drag it to the top of the screen to delete it.

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2. Access the Quick Settings menu faster

Android's Quick Settings menu is considered the easiest way to simplify the operation of opening Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, disable automatic rotation and use a variety of other tools. However, you need to do some operations to display the entire Quick Settings.

Or simply, you just need to swipe down with two fingers. To quickly open the Quick Settings menu, use two swipe fingers from the quick notification bar.

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3. Launch Quick Camera

Have you ever been in a situation, caught a moment and wanted to capture it to save it, but after unlocking the screen, launching the camera app, that moment passed. Really too unfortunate right? In this case, you need to know a shortcut: double-click the power button to quickly start the camera. You don't need to worry about whether your Android phone is supported because this feature supports all Android phones whether your screen is on or off, it works.

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4. View the map in 3D mode

By default, Google Maps uses the flyover view. For normal driving or navigation, this view is very useful. But when you enter more densely populated areas, the flyover mode becomes useless.

If you need another map view, there's a quick way to do it: just use two fingers to pull up. This will change the view from 2D flyover to 3D view. However, you should not use this mode while driving.

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5. Type the keyboard faster with one-handed mode

If you use Google's Gboard app, there are some tips you can refer to. For smartphones with large screens, typing with one-handed mode becomes more difficult than small screens. But Gboard makes it easy to switch to one-handed mode with one simple click and hold.

To switch to one-handed mode, press and hold the comma button, then swipe through the icon that looks like a hand holding a square. And your keyboard has moved to the side of the screen with a smaller size. If you want to move to the other side, just press the big arrow button. To make the keyboard big again, click the button that looks like a full screen icon.

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6. Quickly move the cursor over the text lines

If after completing a 1600 word message and recognizing a spelling error in the fourth line, you need to touch exactly where you want to edit the cursor to appear but this can be a bit difficult. However there is a simpler way that you just need to touch somewhere around and then let the key make its work.

Press the spacebar, then immediately it will slide in the direction you want the cursor to move.

7. Delete multiple words at a time

For example, after writing a message, you change your mind and want to delete it, you do not need to press the delete key to delete each word. There is a faster and easier way to delete words that are using fast gestures.

Just press the delete button, then swipe left, immediately the words will be blackened and as soon as you lift your finger, those words will disappear. One thing to note is that if you accidentally delete a word group, see the suggestions bar, all you have deleted is there until you start typing again. Just touch it to recover your text.

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