Master Your Phone in 4 Easy Steps

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 Your phone, every phone whether it's an iPhone or an Android phone recognizes four main gestures:

1.Touch

2.Touch and Hold

3.Swipe

4.Pinch

Touching your screen opens apps, presses letters on the on-screen keyboard and initiates other actions.

Touching and HOLDING will activate alternative actions like opening up a little menu or selecting an app for removal.

Swiping your finger across the screen is used to flip through your pages of apps or to answer and ignore calls or to scroll up and down on pages that don't fit your screen like a website.

Pinching your screen zooms in and out on most apps acting like a magnifier. 

With these four motions you can accomplish anything on your phone or tablet. Try them out in different spots and in different apps to see what they do. Pay attention as you try them and say out loud what you do like when you get a call and the little phone icon shows up on the screen say out loud as you answer the call: "touch, hold and swipe" as you perform the action to answer the call. This will train your brain to connect the motions you are making with the result you are getting. 

It sounds silly but it really works. After a while that hesitation you now feel where you have to stop and think about what you're doing will go away and you'll be working your phone like a pro.


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