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Windows 11 Touchpad Gestures: How to Enable & Customize
Personalize your Tap, Zoom, Scroll and Three-Finger gestures
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Updated onApril 5, 2024
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Windows 11 offers some new great featuresthat are also easily customizable. So, setting them according to your needs will create a more pleasant and original digital environment.
Among others, touchpad and touchscreen functionalities are extremely popular and require specific attention.
Because we want to always keep you up to date, today’s article will explore how to personalize Touchpad Gestures in Windows 11. But before anything else, let’s look at the supported ones and why to use each one.
How can I easily set Windows 11 Touchpad Gestures?
1. Customize Zoom & Scroll Gestures
2. Set Three-Finger Gestures
As mentioned before, Windows 11 three-finger swipe gestures offer specific templates, so take a look at the list below and discover how great they are:
Similar to the three-finger swipe gestures, taps ones come with multiple options, as you can see below:
The great part is that you can map your own peripherals specs (like keyboard shortcuts or mouse actions) for both Swipe and Taps Three-Finger Gestures. This would help if you feel like presets provided by Windows 11 are not that useful for your needs.
Fortunately, it is extremely simple to do that. And you only have to navigate to the already known Touchpad page, then access the Advanced gestures options.
Personalize tap gestures on Windows 11 touchpad
You can personalize the tap gestures settings on your touchpad by going into Control Panel. The tap gestures are enabled by default as soon as you connect the touchpad. Afterwards, you can easily configure touchpad sensitivity and tapping settings.
1.Hit theWindowskey, then open theSettingsmenu.
2.Click onBluetooth & devices, then navigate toTouchpad.
3.To reveal the needed gestures, click onTaps.
4.There, checkmark the options you want. Note that you can choosemultiple preferences.
5.You can also select the level ofTouchpad Sensitivity.
So, as you can see, there are multiple ways to set Touchpad Gestures in Windows 11. You can also use them when youconnect your Apple Pro Vision headset to your PCsince the eyes don’t work as a cursor with PCs.
If you customize them according to your day-to-day needs, ensure you’ll get a more pleasant and accessible workplace.
What Touchpad Gestures are supported in Windows 11?
Tap Gestures
Tap and swipe represent two common gestures for devices like laptops or tablets.
The Tap gestures detect one or more fingers pressing the touchpad briefly. Maybe it sounds complex, but keep in mind that they do nothing but allow you to select certain items during your day-to-day work.
When a supported precision touchpad is installed, these are always enabled on a Windows PC.
Zoom & Scroll Gestures
Considering the Scroll gesture, it does exactly what it says. Thus, you can use it to scroll conveniently without reaching out to the window’s scroll bar you need to search in.
Similarly, the Zoom Gesture allows you to zoom in or out of a certain box. You usually do this by pinching or expanding with two fingers on your touchpad.
Three-Finger Gestures
These are the most customizable parts of the Touchpad gestures. Windows 11 allows you to be more specific and configure three-finger swipes and taps to do as you please.
Keep in mind that if you have a touchscreen PC, a touch keyboard can be a handy tool to use your device as a tablet. There, checkinghow to quickly enable your touch keyboard on Windows 11would be a great idea.
Also, take a look at thesegreat touchpads for Windows PCyou should definitely try.
In case there are other touchpad-related aspects that you’re concerned about, do not hesitate to notify us by leaving a comment in the section below.
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Radu Tyrsina
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