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As phone screens have gotten more unwieldy, we’ve been forced to rely more on gestures for navigation. While some gestures ...

Google is developing a new corner swipe gesture that lets you invoke the default assistant when using three-button navigation. Previously, pressing and holding the home button would invoke the default ...

There are 15 different gestures you can perform on your iPhone or iPad, not even including app-specific ones. AppleInsider maps out the obvious, the obscure, and the forgotten swipes of iOS, and shows ...

Unlike Android, the iPhone has never had a physical back button. You need some way to go back to the previous page in various apps, and rather than a button, Apple found a decent solution in the back ...

At last year's developer conference, Google gave us our first taste of Android Pie's gesture-based navigation system. It was, uh, pretty rough: the classic, three-button navigation scheme was replaced ...

Youtube is now getting a new swipe gesture for exiting fullscreen viewing mode. That’s according to recent reports following the feature being spotted in action. The change seems to be arriving via a ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

YouTube is updating its mobile apps with a few new features that should make viewing and controlling videos a bit easier, with new gestures, updated player controls ...