Apple Users, Magically Share Text Or Images Between Your Devices Using This Pinch-And-Paste Gesture

A video on Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG GOOGL YouTube is doing rounds on the internet and it can make Apple Inc. AAPL users’ life infinitely more easier. 

What Happened: Seo Wong Jeong, aka “The Mama Guy,” who goes by the name ox_zung on the platform, shared a video with his 4.88 million followers. The video is about a simple three-finger pinch gesture that users can use to cut or copy content (a block of text or an image) between iPhones and other devices. 

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To use this feature, users simply need to follow these steps: 

Step I: Users must ensure they have WiFi and Bluetooth enabled and signed into the same Apple ID and network. 

Step II: Enable Handoff on your devices. On iPhones and iPads, users need to go to Settings, then General and then tap on Handoff. 

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Step III: Make a three-finger pinch gesture on a photo (as demonstrated in the video below) and switch to the other device you want to share the image with. 

Step IV: Make the three-finger pinch gesture again but in an outward form to paste into a text field. 

If you want to see the trick working in action, here’s the complete video: 

At the time of writing, this video had 84K views on YouTube. 

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