{"id":1067,"date":"2025-04-12T02:28:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T02:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2025-04-12T02:28:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T02:28:48","slug":"how-to-use-the-two-finger-drag-gesture-to-select-multiple-items-on-your-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/archives\/1067","title":{"rendered":"How to Use the Two-Finger Drag Gesture to Select Multiple Items on Your iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Your iPhone<\/a> comes with a variety of touch and gesture capabilities to improve the way you interact with apps. While some, like pinch-to-zoom, are commonly known, others are a bit more hidden \u2014 like the Two-Finger Drag<\/strong> feature for selecting multiple items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two-Finger Drag to Select Items<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you find yourself tapping on each individual item in an app \u2014 such as emails in Mail or contacts in Contacts \u2014 there\u2019s a quicker way to select multiple items at once. This gesture works in apps that support multiple-item selection, including Mail<\/strong>, Contacts<\/strong>, Messages<\/strong>, Voice Memos<\/strong>, Notes<\/strong>, and other Apple apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s how to use the two-finger drag:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Open an app<\/strong>\u00a0that supports multiple-item selection.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Touch and hold<\/strong>\u00a0the screen with\u00a0two fingers<\/strong>\u00a0simultaneously.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Drag both fingers up or down<\/strong>\u00a0to select multiple items. As you drag, you\u2019ll see the items become highlighted, indicating that they\u2019re selected.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Once you\u2019ve selected the items, you can\u00a0move, delete<\/strong>, or\u00a0organize<\/strong>\u00a0them, depending on the app.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    This simple yet effective feature helps streamline your workflow, allowing you to select multiple items at once, saving you time and effort when managing lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Your iPhone comes with a variety of touch and gesture capabilities to improve the way you interact with apps. While some, like pinch-to-zoom, are commonly known, others are a bit more hidden \u2014 like the Two-Finger Drag feature for selecting multiple items. Two-Finger Drag to Select Items If you find yourself tapping on each individual item in an app […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guide","tag-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batteryone.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}