Use The Touchscreen; Use The Keyboard - Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Manual

34 Prologue

Use the Touchscreen

You interact with your Galaxy Note 5 mostly by touching the screen, which
is known as making gestures on the screen. You can tap, swipe, pinch, touch
and hold, double-tap, and type.
• Tap—To start an application, tap its icon. Tap a menu item to select it.
Tap the letters of the onscreen keyboard to type.
• Touch and hold— Touch and hold to interact with an object. For exam-
ple, if you touch and hold a blank area of the Home screen, a menu pops
up. If you touch and hold an icon, you can reposition it with your finger.
• Drag—Dragging always starts with a touch and hold. For example, if you
touch the Notification bar, you can drag it down to read all of the notifi-
cation messages.
• Swipe or slide— Move your finger across the screen quickly to scroll
the contents of the screen. Be careful not to touch and hold before you
swipe or you will reposition something. You can also swipe to clear notifi-
cations or close apps when viewing the recent apps.
• Double-tap— Double-tapping is like double-clicking a mouse on a desk-
top computer. Tap the screen twice in quick succession. For example, you
can double-tap a web page to zoom in to part of that page.
• Pinch— Zoom in and out of images and pages by placing your thumb
and forefinger on the screen. Pinch them together to zoom out or spread
them apart (unpinch) to zoom in. Applications such as Browser, Gallery,
and Maps support pinching.
• Rotate the screen— If you rotate your Galaxy Note 5 from an upright
position to being on its left or right side, the screen switches from
Portrait view to Landscape view. Most applications honor the screen ori-
entation. The Home screens and Launcher do not.

Use the Keyboard

Your Galaxy Note 5 has a virtual or onscreen keyboard for those times when
you need to enter text. You might be a little wary of a keyboard that has no
physical keys, but you will be pleasantly surprised at how well it works.