The Art of Double Tapping Your iPhone Screen

by Chris Simpson

The first thing you will probably have done when you got your Apple iPhone would be to have spent a few days playing about with all the various features and applications so that you get a good idea how everything works. Did you know, however, that as well as all the obvious functions that you see displayed on the touch screen there are also a few hidden ones? Not a lot of people take the time to learn these because the iPhone is so easy to use that they don’t think there is anything else to learn about using it.

It can, however, change your experience of the iPhone once you start to learn about the extra hidden features that you weren’t aware of before. It might seem like a waste of time learning these features but once you pick them up you’ll find them so handy that you’ll be glad you spent a little extra time teaching them to yourself.

When you are interacting with your iPhone you will usually single tap on something to tell the phone what you want it to do. Pretty much everything in the iPhone’s user interface responds to a single tap. There are a few places where a double tap does something different and it is well worth learning about those since once you do you will unearth some hidden features that you didn’t previously know about.

You have probably noticed that when you are watching a movie on your iPhone, the screen is showing a letterbox image. This is when there are two black lines under and above the picture, thus giving you a wider view. Actually, this is how the director sees the film, and how it was originally shot. Yet, there are some individuals who cannot stand to have letterbox on while they are watching a film.

This is where the double-tapping feature comes in handy. When you are watching a movie, simply double tap the screen, and you will eliminate the letterbox view, and will then be able to enjoy a full screen version. However, there are some downfalls to using this feature. If the movie you are watching has any type of subtitles, than you will quickly find that watching it in full screen mode may cut-off the words.

To get back to the original letterbox view then all you need to do is repeat the double tap and it will switch back. This makes it so easy to switch between the views and find the one that you prefer for the movie you are watching. This is a great feature of the iPhone and it is also one that you don’t hear mentioned a lot. Once you start using it though you will wonder how you coped without knowing it before.

You will also find that double tapping works in other programs on your iPhone too. If you are using Photos, Google Maps or Safari then a double tap will zoom into whatever you tapped on. The zoom is twice the size of the original so if for example you are viewing an online newspaper then this could give you a much better view of the article you are interested in. You will also find a few other places that double tap does something for you so why not grab your iPhone right now and see what a double tap can do for you?

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