Using Your iPhone’s Touchscreen

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The touchscreen on your iPhone works amazingly well, and there are just a few little things to learn to make the most of it. Here are the three biggies:

(1) You don’t have to press hard. It just takes a light tap on the touchscreen to launch an app (short for application), to choose any button, or select anything. It’s surprisingly sensitive, which is great.

(2) You can zoom in much closer on part of a webpage, or email message, or photo, etc., by either: (a) double-tapping on the area you want to zoom in on, or (b) “pinching out,” which is where you pinch your index finger and thumb together, then touch the screen ...

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