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Tips: iPhone X Operational Gestures

09/20/2017

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You may use to take a screenshot by pressing home button and power button on iDevice in the past, but how to do that on an iPhone X without home button? In addition, the way that back to home screen, activate Siri, power off, temporary disable Face ID, control center and turn off multiple tasks are not the same as before. This tutorial is mainly showing some main iPhone X operational gestures.


1. Take a screenshot on iPhone X

Press the Power button on the right-side, then press Volume + button or Volume – button simultaneously to take a screenshot. You can see the screen flashes and a thumbnail photo should appear at the left bottom.


Tips: iPhone X Operational Gestures


2. Turn iPhone X off

Go to Settings -> General -> Power off. Or you can press Power button and Volume button simultaneously, then you can see the reminder “slide to power off”.


Tips: iPhone X Operational Gestures


From the operations above, we can easily know that the Home button doesn’t gone, it is transferred to Power button. You may see a white line at the bottom screen, that is called Home Indicator.  It will hide automatically if you don’t touch it for a long time.


3. Back to home screen

iPhone X: Slide up from the bottom screen.

iPhone 8 (Plus): Press Home button.


Tips: iPhone X Operational Gestures


4. Invoke Siri

iPhone X: Long press Power button on the right-side.

iPhone 8 (Plus): Long press Home button.


Tips: iPhone X Operational Gestures


5. Turn off multi-tasks

iPhone X: Slide up from the bottom screen and stop in the middle screen. Then you can see all the multitasking interface.

iPhone 8 (Plus): Press Home button for twice, iDevice running above iOS 10 could access the multitasking interface from the side of iDevice’s screen.


Tips: iPhone X Operational Gestures


6. Apple Pay

iPhone X: Press Power button on the right-side for twice.

iPhone 8 (Plus): Press Home button for twice under unlock state.


Tips: iPhone X Operational Gestures


7. Control Center

iPhone X: Slide down from the right screen.

iPhone 8 (Plus): Slide up from the bottom screen.


Tips: iPhone X Operational Gestures


8. Notification Center

iPhone X: Slide down from the left screen.

iPhone 8 (Plus): Slide down from the top of screen.


Tips: iPhone X Operational Gestures


9. Switch Apps

iPhone X: Slide Home Indicator to the right.

iPhone 8 (Plus): Select app from top left corner.


Tips: iPhone X Operational Gestures


10.  Temporary disable Face ID

iPhone X: Press Power button and Volume + button simultaneously, the wait and click Ok.

 

Tips: iPhone X Operational Gestures

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