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How to Tap, Scroll and Zoom with Your Fingers on an iPhone

What you need: An iPhone with a web page open on its screen, such as the practice page that opens when you tap Start the demo below these steps on the website.

Steps

  1. To tap a button, touch it lightly with the soft pad of one fingertip, not your fingernail, then lift your finger straight away without sliding it. You do not need to press hard. The button does what its words say. If your finger slides, the button is not pressed; touch it again. If you hold your finger down instead, a word may turn highlighted; tap an empty part of the page to clear it, then tap the button again.
    A drawing of a phone showing a web page with a lamp and a button below it. A fingertip touches the button lightly, and the lamp lights.
    Touch the button lightly, then lift your finger
  2. To scroll down the page, put one finger near the middle of the screen, on the words of the page. Slide it up the screen, then lift it. The page moves up with your finger and shows more of the page from below.
    A drawing of a phone showing lines of a web page. A fingertip touches the middle of the screen and slides up, and the page moves up with it.
    Slide one finger up to see more of the page below
  3. Keep sliding your finger up, starting near the middle of the screen each time, until nothing new comes up from below. You have reached the end of the page.
  4. To scroll back up, put one finger near the middle of the screen and slide it down the screen, then lift it. Do this again until you see the top of the page, then stop.
    A drawing of a phone showing lines of a web page. A fingertip touches the screen and slides down, and the page moves down with it, back toward its top.
    Slide one finger down to go back up the page
  5. To zoom in on small words, hold the phone in one hand. With your other hand, put your thumb and the finger next to it close together on the words, touching the screen. Keep both on the screen and spread them apart, then lift them. The words and pictures get bigger.
    A drawing of a phone showing a web page with small print. A thumb and finger touch the small print close together, then spread apart, and the words get bigger.
    Spread your thumb and finger apart to make the page bigger
  6. Part of the page is now past the edges of the screen. To see it, put one finger near the middle of the screen and slide it in any direction. The bigger page moves with your finger.
    A drawing of a phone showing a web page made bigger than the screen. A fingertip slides across the screen, and the bigger page moves with it.
    Slide one finger to move around the bigger page
  7. To zoom back out, put your thumb and finger on the screen apart from each other. Keep both on the screen and bring them together, then lift them. Do this again until the page is back to its usual size, filling the screen from side to side.
    A drawing of a phone showing a web page made bigger. A thumb and finger touch the screen apart from each other, then come together, and the words get smaller.
    Bring your thumb and finger together to make the page smaller

Expected result: You tapped a button, scrolled to the end of a page and back to its top, zoomed in on small words and moved around the bigger page, and zoomed back out to the usual size.

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Try these steps on a practice page made for your iPhone: open this lesson on the iPhone, then tap Start the demo. The steps guide you one at a time.

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