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Rice Krispies have Snap! Crackle! Pop! Apple’s response for the iPad is Tap! Flick! Pinch!

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

 Tap: Use any finger to lightly press on and release the iPad screen. Tapping is the single most important element of multitouch interfaces. Tap to open, tap to play, tap to select, tap to shoot (in games).

 Double-tap: Tap the screen twice in rapid succession. This action usually has the effect of zooming into (or out of) what's on the screen (such as a web page, map, or email).

 Long-press: Place a finger on a screen object and leave your finger there until the desired action occurs (such as a menu of options appearing). This gesture is also called press and hold or tap and hold.

 Flick: Quickly swipe a finger along the screen. Flicking lets you scroll through lists of songs, emails, and picture thumbnails. Tap the screen to stop scrolling, or wait for the scrolling list to stop.

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

 Drag: Place a finger on a screen object and then move the finger along the screen. The object moves along with your finger.

 Swipe downward from the top center of the screen: This special gesture displays notifications. Place your finger at the very top of the screen and drag downward.

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

 Swipe downward in the middle of any screen: Display the search feature, a discussion for later in this chapter.

 Swipe from left to right on the first Home screen page: Summon the Today screen, where you see the appointments and reminders you have coming up, get app suggestions and News stories, and access the search feature. The today view is available on the lock screen and the Home screens.

 Swipe from right to left on the lock screen: Summon the iPad’s camera app.

 Swipe up from the bottom of the screen: Open App Switcher, which enables you to quickly switch among or view running apps (see the later section, “Multitasking”). You can also use App Switcher to quit an app by dragging the app’s thumbnail above the top of the screen.

Later in the chapter, you read about a couple of other ways to employ your digits: slide over and split views.

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