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Rice Krispies have Snap! Crackle! Pop! Apple’s response for the iPad is Tap! Flick! Pinch! Oh yeah, and Drag!

Fortunately, tapping, flicking, pinching, and dragging are not challenging gestures, so you can master many of the iPad’s features in no time:

 Tap: Tapping is the single most important element of multitouch interfaces. Tap to open, tap to play, tap to select, tap to shoot (in games). Sometimes, you double-tap (tapping twice in rapid succession), which has the effect of zooming in (or out) of web pages, maps, and emails. Or you tap-and-hold to move something on the screen.

 Flick: A flick of the finger on the screen lets you quickly scroll through lists of songs, emails, and picture thumbnails. Tap the screen to stop scrolling, or merely wait for the scrolling list to stop.

 Pinch/spread: Place two fingers on the screen and spread them apart to zoom in on images, web pages, text, videos, and more. Or pinch your fingers together to make things smaller. These gestures will quickly become second nature!

 Drag: Here’s where you slowly press your finger against the touchscreen without lifting it. You might drag to move around a web page or map that’s too large for the iPad’s display area.

 Drag downward from the top of the screen: This special gesture displays notifications. Press your finger at the very top of the screen and drag downward.

 Drag downward from the top right of the screen: This time, you’re calling up Control Center, a handy repository for music controls, airplane mode (see Chapter 15), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, do not disturb, mute, volume, orientation lock, timer (Clock app), camera, AirPlay, and brightness controls. Check out Figure 2-2 for one view of Control Center.

 Drag downward on any screen without starting at the very top of the screen: This action summons Search, a discussion for later in this chapter.

 Drag from left to right on the first Home screen: You're summoning the Today screen, where you see the appointments and reminders you have coming up, get app suggestions and News stories, and access Search. The today view is available on the lock screen and the Home screens.

 Drag from right to left on the lock screen: This shortcut action summons the iPad’s camera app.

 Swipe from right edge of the screen: You can pull in a temporary overlay of another open app, a slide-over feature we get to later in this chapter. This action requires that you go to Settings ⇒ Homescreen & Dock ⇒ Multitasking and enable the Allow Multiple Apps switch.

 Four-finger swipes and pinches: To quickly multitask or switch among or view running apps (see the later section, “Multitasking”), use four fingers to swipe upward. Swipe left or right (only one finger required) to switch between recently used apps. Pinch using four fingers to jump to your Home screen. Swipe up (one finger will do the trick) on an app’s thumbnail to quit it.

FIGURE 2-2: We think you’ll call on Control Center a lot.

Later in the chapter, you read about a couple of new ways to employ your digits, at least on certain models: slide over and split view.