Have you ever wanted a quicker way to multi-select items on your iPhone or iPad? Thanks to a handy new gesture, selecting multiple emails, messages, notes, files, etc. is now easier than ever before. Show
Gestures have always been an integral part of the iOS ecosystem ever since the introduction of the original iPhone back in 2007. With new iterations of iOS, Apple often adds a few new gestures that could be used across their device line-up. The two-finger tap & drag is the newest addition to the list of all gestures that iOS currently has to offer. You’ll need iOS 13 or iPadOS 13 or later to have this feature available to you. Interested in trying out this new gesture on your iOS device? Read on as we’ll be discussing exactly how you can select multiple emails, messages, notes, files, etc. on both your iPhone & iPad with two-finger tap & drag. How to Select Multiple Emails with Two-Finger Tap & DragApple’s Mail app that comes out of the box with every iOS device is one of the few stock apps that currently support this new gesture. Let’s take a look.
How to Select Multiple Messages with Two-Finger Tap & DragThe stock Messages application also supports the new two-finger tap gesture for multi-selecting messages and it can be used in an identical way.
How to Select Multiple Notes with Two-Finger Tap & DragThis gesture’s usefulness doesn’t stop with Mail and Messages, especially if you use the stock Notes app regularly to write down your ideas, tasks and other information.
How to Select Multiple Files with Two-Finger Tap & DragThis is the last stock app that we’ll be discussing in this article to demonstrate the new gesture.
That’s pretty much all there is to it. Prior to the release of iOS 13, entering the selection menu had always been a multi-step procedure. Thanks to this two-finger tap gesture, you don’t have to manually enter the selection menu in supported apps anymore. This feature requires iOS 13 or later, and yes that includes iOS 14 and iPadOS 14.
We hope you managed to easily multi-select items with a two-finger tap on your iPhone and iPad. What gestures do you use the most? Have you tried out the other gestures yet, whether new or old? Let us know your thoughts and opinions in the comments section down below.
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