Apple iPhone iOS 5.1 - Manual (Page 20)

Scrolling
Drag up or down to scroll. On some screens such as webpages, you can also scroll side to side.
Dragging your finger to scroll won’t choose or activate anything on the screen.
Flick to scroll quickly.
You can wait for the scrolling to come to a stop, or touch the screen to stop it immediately.
Touching the screen to stop scrolling won’t choose or activate anything.
To quickly scroll to the top of a page, tap the status bar at the top of the screen.
Drag your finger along
the index to scroll quickly.
Tap a letter to jump to
a section.
Tap an item in a list to choose it. Depending on the list, tapping an item can do different things—
for example, it may open a new list, play a song, open an email, or show someone’s contact
information so you can call that person.
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