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System Navigation – 3-Button / Gesture
You can get around on your phone in different ways. Learn how to choose an option,
then use that option to move between apps and other items.
Select how you prefer to get around:
Open your phone's Settings app.
Go to
System
>
Gestures
>
System navigation.
Select your preference:
•
Gesture navigation:
No buttons.
•
3-button navigation (Default):
Three buttons for Home, Back, and Recent.
3-button navigation:
You will find a row of three buttons that let you perform
specific functions as below.
•
Back
- Tap to return to the previous screen, or close a dialog box, options menu,
the Notifications panel, or onscreen keyboard.
•
Home
- Tap to open the Home screen.
-
Touch and hold to launch the Google Assistant.
•
Recent
- Tap to open a list of thumbnail images of screens you have worked with
recently. To open one, tap it. To remove a screen from the list, swipe it up. To close
all screens, tap
CLEAR ALL
.
Gesture navigation:
No buttons.
•
Back
- Swipe from the left or right edge of the screen.
•
Home
- Swipe up from the bottom of the screen.
•
Recent
- Swipe up from the bottom, hold, then let go.
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Close apps:
Swipe up on the app image.
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Open an app:
Tap its image.
•
Switch between apps
- At the very bottom of the screen, swipe left to right.
