Gesture Shortcuts in Twitterrific (iOS)
What gestures can I use in Twitterrific?
Starting with Twitterrific 5, there are a number of new gestures that you can utilize to make your experience reading tweets even more enjoyable:
Application-Wide Gestures
- Two-finger swipe left or right to switch between dark and light themes
- Dismiss a popup view by dragging downwards on the navigation bar
Compose Screen Gestures
- Tapping and holding on the attachment button quickly attaches the latest photo
- Quickly remove an image attachment by tapping and holding on the image you'd like to remove
- Turn on geolocation for all tweets per account - Tap and hold the location button
- Tapping on the character counter and then tapping on the “X” button that shows up next to it will clear the tweet
- You can cancel out of autocompleting usernames partway through by tapping the "@" symbol on the keyboard
- Single-finger swipe to adjust cursor position by letter
- Tap and hold on a draft's copy button to copy a saved draft to the clipboard without inserting the text
- Tap and hold on the drafts button to copy the text from the topmost draft in your list into compose
Timeline Gestures
- Pulling downward on the timeline will refresh your Twitter stream
- Swiping downward with two fingers switches to the next account
- Swiping upwards with two fingers switches to the previous account
- Swiping from left to right on a tweet will open a compose screen to reply to that tweet
- Swiping from right to left on a tweet will open the Discussion view for that tweet
- Swiping from the left edge of the screen will open the sidebar
- Tapping and holding on the sidebar button will bring up the accounts screen
- Tapping and holding on the reply button lets you reply from any account
- Tapping and holding on the quote button lets you quote from any account
- Tapping and holding on the retweet button lets you retweet from any account
- Tapping and holding on the like button lets you like a tweet from any account
- Tapping and holding on links, usernames, and hashtags will bring up a context menu for copying the item or opening the item in the in-app browser
From the home timeline
- Replace navigation tabs - tap and hold the tab in the navigation bar
Sidebar Gestures
- Tapping and holding on the Theme button will reset the application’s themes to the factory defaults
Photo Viewer Gestures
- Tapping and holding on the image will bring up a context menu for copying or saving the image, or opening the image in the in-app browser
- Drag downwards to dismiss the photo view
- Swipe left and right to navigate between multiple photos
- Swiping back and forth over an animated gif in the photo viewer will scrub back and forth through the animation
Browser Gestures
- Tap the bottom of the screen to show the toolbar when it is hidden
- Tap and hold the mobilizer button to set mobilizer to always be enabled