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How to Use the Trackpad Gestures on Your MacBook

How to Use the Trackpad Gestures on Your MacBook

 

MacBooks have a large number of multi-touch trackpad movements. This movements speed up basic tasks — the trackpad is not for pointing and tapping.

 

Similarly, the same movements would fit on an Apple Magic Trackpad. We're going to concentrate on the regular movements here, however they can be personalized as well — and if you've already customized them, they'll behave differently.

 

Clicking, dragging, scrolling, zooming and rotating are also possible actions.

 

You can left-click with a single finger on the trackpad or right-click with two fingers — There is no need to have it pressed against the trackpad.

 

The three-finger press is not as clear as the two-finger tap. In almost every program, place your cursor over a phrase and execute a three-finger tap to view the dictionary meaning for that word.

 

How to Use the Trackpad Gestures on Your MacBook

 

Scrolling is straightforward — simply put two fingers on the trackpad and switch them down, up, right, or left to navigate in either direction.

 

Utilize a pinch-to-zoom gesture to zoom in or out of a browser or other text. Zoom in by moving two fingers together on the trackpad, or out by moving them back.

 

Double-tap with 2 fingers on the material you wish to expand into to initiate a "smart zoom." For instance, when we double-tapping with 2 fingers on a How-To be expert post, the article instantly zooms in, filling the browser window with the key content column.

 

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Uploaded on May 3, 2021