Navigating Your Device

Use command buttons and the touch screen to navigate.

Command Buttons

Back

Touch Back to return to the previous screen, option, or step.

Note: When the on-screen keyboard is active, Close Keyboard displays.

Home

Touch Home to display the first center Home screen.

Recent Apps

Open a list of thumbnail images of apps you have worked with recently. Touch an App to open it.

Other Buttons

Search

Touch Search to search the web and your device.

Context-Sensitive Menus

Context-sensitive menus offer options for features or screens. To access context-sensitive menus:

Touch Menu to display a list of options.

Touch an option in the list.

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Finger Gestures

Touch

Touch items to select or launch them. For example:

Touch the on-screen keyboard to enter characters or text.

Touch a menu item to select it.

Touch an application’s icon to launch the application.

Touch and Hold

Activate on-screen items. For example:

Touch and hold a widget on the home screen to move it.

Touch and hold on a field to display a pop-up menu of options.

Swipe, lick, or Slide

Swipe, flick, or slide your finger vertically or horizontally across the screen. For example:

Unlocking the screen

Scrolling the Home screens or a menu

Pinch

Use two fingers, such as your index finger and thumb, to make an inward pinch motion on the screen, as if you are picking something up, or an outward motion by sweeping your fingers out. For example:

Pinch a photo in Gallery to zoom in.

Pinch a web page to zoom in or out.

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Samsung 10.1 user manual Navigating Your Device, Command Buttons, Other Buttons, Finger Gestures