Touch, Pen, and Tablet

In addition to supporting traditional PC form factors with their familiar keyboard, mouse, and touchpad interactions, Windows 11 also supports modern PCs with multitouch capabilities that let you interact by tapping or using gestures right on the display. Some PCs even come in tablet, 2-in-1, and convertible PC form factors that can physically transform between different usage modes, and some support smartpens so you can write or draw on the display.
Multitouch
Multitouch---sometimes just called touch---is the simplest and most common of these modern PC capabilities.
Tap, tap and hold, and grab
Thanks to our many years of experience with smartphones, using multitouch in Windows 11 is mostly intuitive: to select an object onscreen, simply tap the screen. To perform a right-click, tap and hold on the object you wish to do more. You can also "grab" items like icons and windows and drag them to a new location as you would with a mouse.
Throughout this book, we mostly stick with words that describe traditional PC actions with the mouse or keyboard. Each time you see the word "click" or "select," for example, you can substitute the word "tap" if you're using the PC's multitouch capabilities. Likewise, you can substitute "tap and hold" for right-click.
Gestures
Windows 11 also supports touch-based gestures, which are actions you can perform with two or more fingers. The following gestures are available:

Scroll. Using two fingers, you can slide up or down on the screen to scroll through an app, document, or web page. (And, if it supports it, you can slide left and right to scroll horizontally.)

Zoom. Using a "pinch" gesture, you slide your thumb and index finger together on-screen to zoom in on whatever you're viewing. Or, using a "stretch out" gesture, you slide your thumb and index finger away from each other on-screen to zoom out of whatever you're viewing.

Minimize all windows. Using three fingers, slide down on the screen to minimize all open windows and display the desktop.

Restore all windows. Using three fingers, slide up on the screen to display ("restore") all open windows.

Snap layouts. To access Snap layouts, drag a floating window a bit to display the bottom edge of the Snap layouts pane at the top of the screen. Then, move the window towards that pane to display the available layouts and then choose one.
You can learn more about Snap layouts in Snap.
Edge gestures
Windows 11 also supports edge gestures, which are gestures that start at any of the four sides of the PC's display. The following edge gestures are available:

Widgets. Swipe in from the left edge of the display to open Widgets.

Notifications and Calendar. Swipe in from the right edge of the display to display the Notifications and Calendar panes.

Start. Swipe up from the middle bottom of the display to open the Start menu.

Quick settings. Swipe up from below the Network, Sound, and Power icons to open Quick settings.

Switch apps. Using th...