iPhone 是一款用途广泛的设备。除了让您保持联系之外，它还可以让您浏览互联网、听音乐、玩视频游戏、拍摄照片和视频(shoot photos and videos)……这样的例子不胜枚举。如果您刚刚拥有一部 iPhone，那么您将大有可为。但是，您必须首先掌握“手势”。但 iPhone 上的手势是什么？
手势是您可以在 iPhone 的触摸屏上执行的各种基于手指的操作。它们帮助您与 iOS（为 iPhone 提供动力的操作系统）和在其上运行的应用程序进行交互。从本质上讲，您在 iPhone 上所做的任何事情都可以通过手势来完成。
下面，您将找到 iPhone 的所有标准手势，以及您应该如何以及何时使用它们。
轻敲(Tap)
点击是 iPhone 上所有手势中最基本（也是最常用）的手势。
每当您想要选择或激活您在屏幕上看到的项目时，只需用手指点击它即可。
无论是从 iPhone 的主(Home)屏幕打开应用程序，还是在屏幕键盘上选择字母，只需轻点一下即可。
滑动(Swipe)
滑动涉及在 iPhone 屏幕上短暂拖动和释放手指。这是一种主要用于导航的手势，就像点击一样，你会经常使用它。
例如，向左或向右滑动主(Home)屏幕可让您在页面之间移动。翻阅相册或电子书时也是如此。此外，向上或向下滑动可让您在应用程序和网站中滚动。
滑动手势还可以帮助您触发 iOS 中的各种操作和功能，主要是在带有 Face ID 的 iPhone 上(iPhones with Face ID)。它们包括以下内容：
- 使用任何应用程序时，从底部向上滑动(Swipe)即可进入主(Home)屏幕。
- 从左下角滑动到屏幕中央以调出App Switcher。
- 在底部向左或向右滑动以在打开的应用程序之间移动。
- (Swipe)从屏幕右上角向下滑动以打开控制中心(Control Center)。
- (Swipe)在底部向下滑动以触发可达性(Reachability)模式。
- 向下滑动(Swipe)屏幕的前顶部中央以打开通知中心(Notification Center)。
点击并按住(Tap & Hold)
点击并按住手势（需要按住手指）可以显示各种有用的选项，具体取决于您执行它的位置。您可能还会看到它被称为长按或长按。在某些情况下，手势提供来自 iPhone 的Taptic Engine的触觉反馈。
例如，点击并按住主屏幕上的(Home)相机(Camera)应用程序图标，会弹出一个漂亮的快捷菜单，该菜单与纵向(Portrait)和视频(Video)模式进行深度链接。当在Safari中的超链接上执行时，相同的手势会打开它指向的站点的预览窗口。
还有许多其他点击并按住的实例，其中一些如下：
- 点击并按住(Tap)主(Home)屏幕中的空白区域以进入“微动”模式。
- 点击(Tap)并按住屏幕键盘中的键以显示替代字符。
- 点击(Tap)并按住文件应用程序中的文件和文件夹以(Files)显示上下文菜单操作，例如复制(Copy)、移动(Move)和重命名(Rename)。
- 点击(Tap)并按住应用程序和网页中的文本以调出突出显示选择句柄。
- 点击(Tap)并按住邮件(Mail)应用程序中的消息以预览它们。
拖(Drag)
顾名思义，拖动手势可以帮助您移动东西。它涉及按住一个项目，然后将其拖动到另一个位置。例如，您可以使用此手势重新排列主屏幕图标(rearrange Home screen icons)、堆叠小部件、组织文件应用程序中的文件和文件夹、(Files)重新排序应用程序中的列表，例如笔记和提醒(Reminders)，等等。
捏(Pinch)
捏合手势允许您放大和缩小照片和网页等项目。将几根手指轻轻放在一起，只需将它们分开即可放大或合拢即可缩小。
根据图像或网页，您可以多次重复该手势。
双击(Double-Tap)
双击，包括快速连续点击两次，是另一种允许您放大和缩小的手势。虽然与捏合手势相比它更快，但它主要限于图像。此外，与双击相比，捏合提供了更多的缩放控制。
如果您使用带有Touch ID的 iPhone，您可以使用(Touch ID)主(Home)屏幕按钮上的双击手势来触发可达性(Reachability)模式。
旋转(Rotate)
iPhone还有一个手势，用于旋转图像等项目。它需要将几根手指分开放在屏幕上，然后按您要旋转的方向顺时针或逆时针旋转。
三指捏(Three-finger Pinch)
三指捏合允许您将突出显示的文本复制到剪贴板(copy highlighted text to the clipboard)。这个手势一开始有点难以确定，但它只涉及将三个手指分开并同时移动它们。
您将看到“复制”标志闪烁到屏幕顶部作为确认。然后，您可以通过三指张开将复制的文本粘贴到其他位置。
三指滑动(Three-finger Swipe)
三指滑动是一种特定于文本的手势。用三根手指向左轻扫以撤消您输入的任何文本。相反，用三个手指向右轻扫以重做文本。
摇(Shake)
摇晃是一种不涉及触摸屏的特殊 iPhone 手势。相反，您只需轻轻摇晃设备本身即可撤消上一个操作。例如，如果您不小心删除或存档了一封电子邮件，只需摇晃 iPhone，然后轻点“撤消(Undo)”即可将其取回。
该手势还扩展到撤消文本，但三指滑动更方便。
打手势通过(Gesture Your Way Through)
上面的大多数手势在整个 iPhone 中都很常见，在处理您在使用它时遇到的几乎任何事情时，它们应该会有很大帮助。某些手势（滑动、点击并按住、拖动等）还有很多，所以不要停止尝试。此外，请准备好在视频游戏等应用程序中误入自定义手势领域。
What Are Gestures on iPhone?
Thе iPhone is an incredibly versatile device. Aside from kеeping you connected, it also lets you browse the internet, listen to music, play video gameѕ, shoot photos and videos … the list goes on and on. If you just got an iPhone, you’re in for quite a ride. You must, however, come to grips with “gestures” first. But what are gestures on iPhone?
Gestures are various finger-based actions that you can perform on the iPhone’s touch-screen. They help you interact with iOS (the operating system that powers the iPhone) and the apps that run on it. Essentially, anything that you do on your iPhone can be done with a gesture.
Below, you will find all standard gestures for the iPhone, and how and when you should use them.
Tap
A tap is the most basic (and most-used) of all gestures on the iPhone.
Whenever you want to select or activate an item you see on-screen, just tap it with your finger.
Whether it’s opening an app from the iPhone’s Home screen or selecting letters on the onscreen keyboard, a tap is all it takes.
Swipe
A swipe involves a brief drag and release of your finger over the iPhone’s screen. It’s a gesture mostly used for navigation, and just like the tap, you’ll use it a lot.
For example, swiping to the left or the right of the Home screen allows you to move between pages. The same applies when flicking through a photo album or an ebook. Additionally, swiping up or down lets you scroll within apps and websites.
The swipe gesture also helps you trigger various actions and features in iOS, mainly on iPhones with Face ID. They consist of the following:
- Swipe up from the bottom to get to the Home screen while using any app.
- Swipe from the lower-left to the center of the screen to bring up the App Switcher.
- Swipe to the left or right at the bottom to move among open apps.
- Swipe down from the top-right corner of the screen to open the Control Center.
- Swipe down at the bottom to trigger Reachability mode.
- Swipe down the front top-center of the screen to open the Notification Center.
Tap & Hold
A tap and hold gesture (which requires pressing and holding your finger) can reveal various useful options depending on where you perform it. You may also see it referred to as the long tap or the long press. In some instances, the gesture provides haptic feedback from the iPhone’s Taptic Engine.
Tapping and holding the Camera app icon on the Home screen, for example, brings up a nifty shortcut menu that deep-links to the Portrait and Video modes. When performed on a hyperlink in Safari, the same gesture opens a preview window of the site that it points at.
There are numerous other instances of tap and hold, a few of which are as follows:
- Tap and hold a vacant area within the Home screen to enter “jiggle” mode.
- Tap and hold keys within the onscreen keyboard to reveal alternative characters.
- Tap and hold files and folders within the Files app to reveal contextual menu actions such as Copy, Move, and Rename.
- Tap and hold on text within apps and webpages to bring up highlight selection handles.
- Tap and hold messages in the Mail app to preview them.
Drag
As the name implies, a drag gesture helps you move stuff around. It involves pressing and holding an item and then dragging it to another position. For example, you can use this gesture to rearrange Home screen icons, stack widgets, organize files and folders within the Files app, reorder lists in apps such as Notes and Reminders, and so on.
Pinch
The pinch gesture allows you to zoom into and out of items such as photos and web pages. With a couple of fingers held slightly together, simply push them apart to zoom in or together to zoom out.
Depending on the image or webpage, you can repeat the gesture multiple times.
Double-Tap
A double-tap, which involves tapping twice in quick succession, is another gesture that allows you to zoom in and out. While it’s faster compared to the pinch gesture, it’s mostly limited to images. Also, pinching offers more zoom control compared to double-tapping.
If you use an iPhone with Touch ID, you can use the double-tap gesture on the Home button to trigger Reachability mode.
Rotate
The iPhone also has a gesture reserved for rotating items such as images. It requires placing a couple of fingers apart on the screen and then rotating clockwise or counterclockwise in the direction you want to rotate.
Three-finger Pinch
The three-finger pinch allows you to copy highlighted text to the clipboard. The gesture is a tad tricky to nail down at first, but it merely involves placing three fingers apart and moving them together simultaneously.
You will see the “Copy” badge flash to the top of the screen as a confirmation. You can then paste the copied text elsewhere by pinching out with three fingers.
Three-finger Swipe
The three-finger swipe is a text-specific gesture. Swipe with three fingers to the left to undo any text that you’ve typed. Conversely, swipe to the right with three fingers to redo the text.
Shake
A shake is a special iPhone gesture that doesn’t involve the touch-screen. Instead, you shake the device itself briefly to undo your last action. If you deleted or archived an email accidentally, for example, simply shake your iPhone, and then tap Undo to get it back.
The gesture also extends to undoing text, but the three-finger swipe is much more convenient for that.
Gesture Your Way Through
Most of the gestures above are commonplace throughout the iPhone, and they should help a lot when dealing with practically anything that you come across while using it. There’s a lot more to certain gestures (swipe, tap and hold, drag, etc.), so don’t stop experimenting. Also, do be prepared to stray into custom gesture territory in apps such as video games.
