{"id":264342,"date":"2026-06-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/i-was-using-my-android-the-slow-way-these-5-gestures-fixed-it\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T16:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:30:18","slug":"i-was-using-my-android-the-slow-way-these-5-gestures-fixed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/i-was-using-my-android-the-slow-way-these-5-gestures-fixed-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I was using my Android the slow way \u2014 these 5 gestures fixed it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-was-using-my-android-the-slow-way-these-5-gestures-fixed-it\/\">I was using my Android the slow way \u2014 these 5 gestures fixed it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-was-using-my-android-the-slow-way-these-5-gestures-fixed-it\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-was-using-my-android-the-slow-way-these-5-gestures-fixed-it\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-04 12:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the years, Google has quietly added a bunch of gestures to make it easier and faster to use Android (and you can even create your own gestures). Some are on-screen gestures (many of which are not obvious), but some are unique ways to interact with the buttons on your phone.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you want to quickly toggle between two apps like you do on a PC with Alt+Tab, or you want to launch Gemini from any screen, or open the camera before you even take your phone out of your pocket, there are a lot of gestures you can employ to make using Android faster. Here are some of my favorites.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tMy old Android was laggy until I toggled this setting<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">I thought I needed a new phone\u2014this tweak saved it.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"two-finger-swipe-jumps-directly-to-quick-settings\">\n                        Two finger swipe jumps directly to Quick Settings<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"get-to-your-toggles-quickly\">\n            Get to your toggles quickly<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>       &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-was-using-my-android-the-slow-way-these-5-gestures-fixed-it\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was using my Android the slow way \u2014 these 5 gestures fixed it https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-was-using-my-android-the-slow-way-these-5-gestures-fixed-it\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/06\/feat-3.jpeg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,86],"class_list":["post-264342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264344,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264342\/revisions\/264344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}