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title: Helpful Gestures for iAnnotate
description: In iAnnotate, specific gestures can help you navigate through the app and perform certain functions. Learn more about how to use certain gestures in iAnnotate.
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# Helpful Gestures for iAnnotate

## In iAnnotate, specific gestures can help you navigate through the app and perform certain functions. Learn more about how to use certain gestures in iAnnotate.

### How To Use Gestures

These gestures will allow you to hide/reveal tabs, toolbar, show recently used tools, and scroll while a tool is active.

**To Remove Top Bar Document Tabs from View**

- **Tap with one finger** to hide your top tabs or bring them back into view.

**To Remove Top Bar Document Tabs and the Toolbar from View**

- **Tap with three fingers** to hide all menus (your tabs and your toolbar) or bring them back into view.

**To Remove Only the Toolbar**

- **Tap the Pencil icon above the the toolbar** to hide or bring the toolbar back into view. 

**To Scroll while an Annotation Tool is Active**

- **Use to two fingers to scroll** through a document while a tools remains active. This will suspend a tool keep it active though preventing further mark ups while you scroll. Then you'll be ready to continue annotating once you reach a new part of your document.

**To Switch Between Recently Used Tools**

- **Double tap the page** to reveal a toolbar menu of up to 4 of your most recently used tools/tool settings. 

Tip: In case you've been switching back and forth between two different pencil colors, you can short cut the manual color changing process by double tapping to reveal both colors within the recently used tool menu.

 

Curious about using iAnnotate gestures? Reach out to our team at [help@folia.com](mailto:help@folia.com). 

 

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Updated June 2024

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