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Android 10 gestures: Everything you need to know
June 05, 2025
Therelease of Android 10in 2019 included plenty of new features and improvements for Google’s mobile operating system. Perhaps the most controversial new additions are the Android 10 gestures. These control features completely replaced the older button design. One Android 10 gesture even lets you launch Google Assistant.
The use of gesture-based controls are supposed to make it easier to navigate through Android 10’s screens and menus, particularly for phones that have edge-to-edge displays.
Read more:Android 10 release history
Here’s a quick rundown of everything you need to know about the Android 10 gestures, including how to enable them on your phone, how to use them to move through the OS, and more.
How to turn on Android 10 gesture controls
While getting used to the Android 10 gesture controls may take a little while for some people, actually enabling them in the OS is pretty simple.
List of Android 10 gesture controls
So now that you have ditched the more familiar button controls, let’s take a look at how you may use gesture controls to go through Android 10’s screens.
Accessing app menus in Android 10
If you are using an app in Android 10 with the gesture controls enabled, you can still access the standard menu for these apps on the left. One way is to swipe on the screen from the left side with two fingers to bring up the menu. The other way, which is more useful for one-handed phone use, lets you hold down on the edge of the left screen to cause the menu to partially pop out, and then it can be fully accessed by swiping on that menu.
Android 10 gesture features in other phones and launchers
The Android 10 gesture control features should work on phones that install stock versions of the OS. However, other phones that have their own skins, likeOneUI from Samsung, will continue to use their own ways to navigate through menus.
That’s all you need to know about the Android 10 gesture controls.
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