What is the fastest way to scroll iPhone pictures?

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If you have a lot of apps, you likely have a lot of home screen pages unless you hid them. With many pages, swiping over to a particular one can feel very tedious, especially if you're doing so repetitively, over and over again. If this sounds like your iPhone experience, you should know you're swiping wrong. There's a much faster way to get around your home screen, thanks to iOS 14.

You know those dots on your home screen? In portrait orientation, they're above the home screen's dock, while they're at the very bottom in landscape mode. Well, they indicate which home screen page you're currently on. There's even a dot for the Today View where all of your widgets, new and old, appear.

Instead of swiping through pages on the home screen, you can tap the dots to move between pages. However, iOS 14 makes the entire dot area swipeable as well, similar to the emoji keyboard's hidden scroll feature. The only downside to the new swipe action is that the Today View is no longer a dot, nor the new App Library.

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There are two main ways to swipe through your pages using the dots. First, long-press on the dots until the translucent border appears, then swipe within that border. You'll move through the pages as fast as you swipe. Second, long-press the dots until the translucent background appears, then swipe quickly out of the border. Now, iOS will swipe through your pages at a fixed rate.

And just like tapping the dots, you can use the new swipes on not only home screen pages, but within folders to get around your apps faster, wherever they may be.

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It's hard to grab, and I think this is something Apple should work on. It seems you have to put your finger on exactly the right spot. A little to the left or right and no go. Widening that target would go a long way to solving the problem.

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Apr 28, 2020 11:33 AM in response to joachim0405

I am just clicking into the scroll bar to get to the top of "All Photos".

I have set the System Preferences > General like this:

Show Scroll Bars: Always
Click into Scroll Bar: Jump to the spot that is clicked

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Whilst there is not an explicit gesture to “jump” to the bottom of the page, you can easily and quickly scroll down through a long page in most Apps… including Photos.

As soon as you swipe upwards (to scroll down), a narrow scroll-bar appears at the extreme right-edge of the screen. Touch-and-hold the bar - and the bar will thicken; without lifting your finger, drag the scroll-bar downwards to rapidly scroll down the page. Likewise, dragging upwards scrolls back up the page. The presence of the scroll-bar is often (and easily) missed.

The visual length of the scroll-bar provides a relative indication of how much of the extended page is visible on-screen. The longer the page, the shorter the scroll-bar. The position of the scroll-bar in relation to the edge indicates your position in the page.

Try this out on this page - and the scroll-bar will be about a half of the length of the right-hand edge of the screen. At time of writing this reply, this indicates that you can see about a half of the extended page on the screen. As more replies are added here, the page gets longer - and the scroll-bar proportionally shorter.