Prime 10 Android 13 gestures to make your cellphone extra intuitive
Android 13 and its varied overlays supply many gestures to create shortcuts and make the consumer interface extra intuitive. On this information, NextPit exhibits you one of the best Android 13 gestures to faucet, swipe or pinch extra effectively in your smartphone.
For this text, I’ll point out shortcuts from inventory Android, the native model of Google’s cell OS discovered on the Pixel line, amongst others. However I may also listing some shortcuts that may be present in some Android overlays, like MIUI 14 or One UI 5. So not all gestures can be found on all smartphones.
And we’re speaking about gestures right here, however options. The concept is to give you shortcuts to launch an utility, entry a characteristic, or just navigate the interface of your smartphone.
Desk of contents:
Change rapidly between purposes
You probably have gesture navigation enabled, you’ll be able to in all probability see a horizontal bar on the backside of your display proper now, proper? This bar means that you can rapidly change from one utility to a different, with out having to shut the applying within the foreground or undergo the app switcher.
You probably have a number of apps open in your smartphone, merely swipe proper or left to juggle between apps. By the best way, should you swipe proper on this bar from your private home display (with no apps open), you may change to the final opened app.
Change rapidly from one Chrome tab to a different
This gesture is similar to the one talked about above. Within the Google Chrome app in your Android smartphone, you’ll be able to change between Chrome tabs with a easy swipe gesture. Simply swipe left or proper on the tackle bar.
Furthermore, by swiping down from the identical tackle bar, you’ll be able to show the overview of all of your tabs and tab teams.
Add a shortcut button to the again of your smartphone
This gesture is impressed by the Again Faucet gesture in iOS. You possibly can create a number of shortcuts by tapping the again of your smartphone. Initially, I had solely discovered this selection on Android in MIUI, Xiaomi’s overlay. However on the newest Pixel 7, Google additionally gives the same characteristic referred to as Fast Faucet in Android 13.
You possibly can affiliate a number of shortcuts with a number of sorts of tapping: double or triple. This gesture works fairly effectively and even should you use a case together with your smartphone (it’s a must to faucet a bit more durable at that time).
Put an utility in windowed mode
The windowed mode or “pop-up view” means that you can show a number of purposes on the similar time on the display. And a few Android overlays supply gestures to change extra rapidly to windowed mode. That is the case with Oppo’s ColorOS 13, Samsung’s One UI 5, or Xiaomi’s MIUI 13, amongst others.
On my Nothing Cellphone (1), for instance, I simply should swipe up from the underside of my display in an utility and do a protracted press with out lifting my finger from the smartphone. I then merely drag and drop the applying to the highest proper nook of my display and it seems in a small floating window.
Insert numbers and particular characters sooner with Gboard
Gboard keyboard shortcuts deserve an article of their very own. However one of the helpful is the one which means that you can add numbers or particular characters with the least quantity of friction.
Simply press the ?123 key on the underside left of the keyboard, then drag your finger over the image and launch it to insert it, and return to the traditional keyboard. You now not must manually change between the 2 keyboard panes.
This gesture additionally works with the Shift key to put a capital letter.
Transfer the Gboard cursor extra exactly
While you need to appropriate a typo by deleting/including a letter in the midst of a phrase and/or sentence, putting the cursor in the correct place will be very, very difficult.
I believe lots of you’re already conversant in this gesture, however all it’s a must to do is press and maintain the area bar on the Gboard keyboard. With out releasing your finger, you’ll be able to slide left or proper to maneuver the cursor. It is far more exact and fewer irritating.
Enlarge the picture-in-picture mode window
The image-in-picture mode means that you can watch Youtube movies or VOD films and collection in windowed mode. The PiP possibility will not be free on Youtube and, not like my colleague Camila, I’ll die earlier than subscribing to Youtube Premium. Netflix additionally gives this characteristic.
However with a easy pinch gesture, like zooming whenever you take footage, you’ll be able to enlarge the PiP window. It isn’t limitless, nevertheless it means that you can see a bit higher what is going on on in that tiny portion of your display. In fact, you’ll be able to drag and drop the PiP window however I am certain you all knew that already.
Discover a photograph extra simply in Google Pictures
You probably have exploded the free cupboard space of Google Pictures, discovering a selected image on this enormous photograph gallery could be a ache.
From the Google Pictures primary display, when you will have the overview of all of your pictures, you’ll be able to pinch the display to zoom in/out the photograph thumbnails.
The gallery scrolls sooner whenever you zoom out, and you may re-zoom to seek out exactly THE photograph you want.
Take a screenshot with three fingers
Typically Android producers complicate issues for completely no good cause. The beforehand common and well-known combo was to press the facility button and the quantity button down on the similar time.
However now, it’s a must to both do a protracted press or press the highest quantity button, briefly, it is annoying and it modifications relying on the producer. Some like Oppo and OnePlus have a gesture that means that you can take screenshots with three fingers. No must press a number of buttons. Simply swipe your three fingers from the highest to the underside of your display and also you’re carried out.
Lock your smartphone rapidly (and discreetly)
On some Android smartphones, you’ll be able to flip off your display and thus lock your smartphone by double-tapping your private home display. I found this gesture on my Nothing Cellphone (1), however the characteristic additionally exists in lots of different producers like Samsung and Xiaomi.
What’s your favourite Android gesture? Do you will have an instance that ought to be on this listing?
