Your HTC One M9 includes some very useful gestures to make common actions quicker when your screen is off. Check out how to turn on these gestures and a description of what all of them do:
To turn on:
- In the Settings app, open the Display & gestures menu in the Phone section.
- Tap on Motion Launch Gestures
- Tap the check box in each row to enable
So what do all these gestures do? Let’s go through them one by one:
- Double tap to wake up & sleep
- This one is pretty self-evident. When your phone is asleep, you can simply tap twice on the screen in quick succession to wake it up.
- Swipe down to turn on voice dialing
- When your phone is locked, picking your phone up normally and swiping down will begin voice recognition to quickly make a phone call.
- When this option is checked, another checkbox pops up that lets you specify whether or not this feature lets you bypass the security screen.
- Swipe up to unlock
- This eliminates a step to unlocking your phone by instead letting you swipe up on the screen while its off to bring you immediately to the homescreen (or whatever app you had open when you locked your phone
- Swipe left to launch widget panel
- This gesture immediately brings you to your widget panel (or the first home screen page)
- Swipe right to launch Blinkfeed
- Like the previous gesture, this will bring you immediately to the Blinkfeed section of your home screen
- Volume button to launch Camera
- This is a fun one: when your screen is off, hold your phone as you would when taking a landscape photo or video, and tap the volume up button. This will take you right into the camera so that you can quickly capture the action.
For more HTC One M9 Tips and tricks, check out our HTC One M9 Tips & Tricks Roundup
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