Using long-press gestures
Similar to the tap gesture is the long-press gesture. With the tap gesture, you touch the screen briefly and then lift your finger away. With the long-press gesture (also called tap and hold), you press the screen over an item and hold it until the iPhone responds in some way, typically by displaying one or more options you can choose from.
To make those options go away, just tap anywhere on the screen, away from the list of options that appeared.
Think of long-press gestures as similar to right-clicking with a mouse to view a submenu of options on a traditional PC.
On the Home screen, the long-press gesture can display commonly used commands for a specific app, along with general commands for editing the Home screen. When you long-press the Camera and Maps icons on the Home screen, the Camera app displays shortcuts for taking selfies or videos, while the Maps app displays shortcuts for marking locations or searching nearby, as shown in Figure 1.15...