Interacting with Your New iPhone

Abstract

Your iPhone introduces a revolutionary new way to interact. It responds to the language of your touch. Its vocabulary includes taps, drags, pinches, and flicks. With these, you control your iPhone as easily as using a mouse with your personal computer. And there’s a lot more to interaction than just drags and double-clicks. The iPhone offers multitouch technology. That means it can recognize and respond to more than one touch at a time. In this chapter, you’re about to discover all the different ways you can interact with your iPhone—from zooming into and out of maps, to using the iPhone’s on-board keyboard, to playing with its sensors. You’ll learn how all these features work and how to take advantage of some secret ways to interact with your iPhone.