Check out these 10 simple yet powerful trackpad gestures you can use on your iPad to boost your productivity.
Multi-Touch Gestures
Here are all the iPad gestures available with Apple’s Magic Trackpad and Mouse accessories
iPad trackpad support in iPadOS 13.4 opens up whole new ways to use your Apple tablet. iPad trackpad and mouse gestures are supported by Apple's Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro, as well as the company's standalone Magic Trackpad and Magic Mouse 2 accessories. Follow along with your favorite blog as we teach you about all of the iPad trackpad gestures that are available with the Magic Trackpad 1 and 2, Magic Mouse 2 and third-party mice.
How to customize trackpad and mouse gestures on your Mac
Learn how to customize the trackpad and mouse gestures on your Mac to enhance efficiency and boost productivity.
How to use the text editing gestures on iPhone and iPad
Learn these essential text editing gestures on your iPhone or iPad so you can copy, cut, paste, and boost your productivity.
How to master Apple’s swipe keyboard
In this tutorial, we will show you how to enable and use the gesture-based swipe keyboard on your iPhone and iPad to streamline your typing experience and enhance your productivity.
How to right-click on Mac (and what to do if you can’t)
In this tutorial, we explain all the practical ways to right-click—also know as secondary click or Control-click on your Mac using a mouse, trackpad, or keyboard.
Boosting iPad productivity with one-fingered app switching & other multitasking gestures
For the sake of consistency, iOS supports iPhone X-style multitasking gestures on iPad. With them, you can interact with multiple apps on the Apple tablet by using new gestures in iOS 12 designed to replace the key functions of the incredibly versatile Home button.
iOS 12 brings fast app switching to iPad with the convenient one-finger multitasking gesture
iOS 12 turns your iPad into an even better multitasking machine by allowing you to easily cycle through your open apps using a natural and convenient one-finger gesture which augments Apple's existing but unwieldy four-fingered horizontal swipe.
Three finger drag gesture via new MacBook Pro’s trackpad acting up for some users
Three finger drag, a productivity-boosting multi-touch trackpad gesture in macOS, isn't working properly for some owners of Apple's new MacBook Pro. Both 13 and 15-inch MacBook Pros have larger trackpads than their predecessors, but for many people the gesture doesn't work at all.
For others, three finger drag works only intermittently or performs erroneously when used in one of the sides of the new MacBook Pro's Force Touch trackpad.
iOS 10 tidbit: “Slide to unlock” is gone, say hello to “Press home to unlock”
The iPhone's familiar slide-to-unlock gesture was subjected to multiple lawsuits, but the feature itself has barely changed since the handset's inception nearly a decade ago.
With iOS 10, however, Apple has made some plenty significant changes to the Lock screen while introducing a brand new way to get into your phone.
How to get Zephyr-like gestures on iOS 7
MultitaskingGestures is a just released jailbreak tweak that brings Zephyr-like functionality to iPhones running iOS 7. Since it doesn't look like we will see an iOS 7 updated version of Zephyr, developer Hamza Sood has taken the initiative to bring us something similar.
To be clear, MultitaskingGestures is not a 1:1 copy of Zephyr; it brings its own ideas and features to the table, but it's a flattering impersonation of Chpwn's groundbreaking tweak of old. Have a look at our video walkthrough inside to see MultitaskingGestures in action.
Apple patent envisions 3D gestures for iPads
Imagine the iPad's touch screen gaining a third dimension, enabling users to extract a 2D image, then manipulate it using new gestures, such as 'pull', 'push' and 'sculpt'. That's the gist of an Apple patent filed in 2012 and published Tuesday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Titled 'Working with 3D Objects,' the patent outlines a touch screen interface where users "generate and manipulate 3D objects using 3D gesture inputs." At the core, the technology employs both capacitive touch sensors and proximity sensors in the iDevice screen...