With the lack of a home button you might be wondering how you get back to your home screen, or perform other basic tasks on your new iPhone. To get around this issue, Apple has introduced a gesture system that you can perform to do a variety of tasks on your phone. The home bar referenced in this list is the bar or color that is located at the bottom of your iPhone screen.
- Navigate to home screen — swipe up on home bar
- Notification Center — swipe down from top of screen
- Control Center — swipe down from top right of screen
- Siri Search — swipe down from center of screen
- Switch between apps — swipe left or right on home bar
- Close an app – swipe up from the bottom of the screen, press and hold at the bottom of the display. Swipe up on the app you want to close.
- App Switcher — swipe up from home bar and hold or perform a swooping motion towards the right edge of the screen
- Reachability — swipe down from just above the home bar.
- Siri — press and hold the side button
- Accessibility — triple tap the side button
- Screenshot — press volume up and side buttons simultaneously
- Power off and SOS — press and hold volume down and side buttons simultaneously
- Restart – Press and quickly release the volume up button. Press and quickly release the volume down button. Finally, press and hold the side button until you see the Apple logo
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