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I have a scroll page that I specified two fingers minimum. It works on my device, but don't know how to mimic this gesture on Simulator. I can mimic one-finger scroll without problem. I've tried option/ctrl/shift etc, but couldn't get it work. Maybe my combination is wrong. Anyone knows how? Thanks.

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Holding the "Alt/Option" key and dragging simulates multi-touch pinch-to-zoom.

Holding "Alt/Option + Shift" and dragging simulates multi-touch scrolling.

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  • I hold Alt(i.e., Command) key and Shift key, and two fingers on Mac mouse pad, scrolling up or down, didn't see a response .... :(
    – Tony Xu
    Commented Nov 7, 2012 at 19:25
  • I don't have a mac mouse pad to test with, but I don't believe you're supposed to be using the two fingers - just one. You're not enabling the multi-touch in the simulator, you're simulating it.
    – Joe C
    Commented Nov 7, 2012 at 19:41
  • Yes, Apple never updated the simulator to map from Mac OS multi-touch to multi-finger iOS gestures. It's only been what, 8 years?
    – Duncan C
    Commented Jul 9, 2020 at 20:08
  • If pressing the given key doesn't seem to work, make sure that the "Send Keyboard Input to Device" feature isn't enabled. To enable/disable this, while the emulator is focused open the I/O menu -> Input -> Send Keyboard Input to Device
    – Fearnbuster
    Commented Jan 5, 2022 at 22:32
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There is a nice table with all the supported gestures in the iOS Simulator User Guide from Apple. Here is the extract for the two-finger drag:

  1. Place the pointer where you want the two-finger drag to occur.
  2. Hold down the Option key.
  3. Move the circles that represent finger touches to the start position.
  4. Move the center of the pinch target by holding down the Shift key, moving the circles to the desired center position, and releasing the Shift key.
  5. Hold down the Shift key and the mouse button, move the circles in the direction you want to drag, and release both the Shift key and the mouse button.

Hope it helps.

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To appear two fingers:

press ALT and drag mouse.

To zoom using two fingers:

press ALT and press SHIFT (to adjust touches.After adjusting release SHIFT key) and drag mouse.
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    my friend, you are awesome!
    – Arsh Aulakh
    Commented May 25, 2017 at 17:49
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Things moved around in Sierra for me, but here is how I enabled 3-finger scrolling:

  1. **System Preferences > Accessibility
  2. Scroll down to Mouse & Trackpad and tap Trackpad options
  3. Make sure 'Enable Dragging' is selected
  4. Select 'three finger drag' from the drop-down

Makes such a big difference when testing on various devices & simulators.

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The best way to scroll in the iPad simulator is by the Three Fingers dragging, which is a global setup of the OS X and not a particular feature of the iOS simulator.

In order to scroll using three fingers you need to turn on the 'Three Finger Drag' under TrackPad > Point and Click in the Settings App of OS X.

and to set the Mission Control and App Exposé to use four fingers (in TrackPad > More Gestures in the Settings App of OS X)

(I made beautiful screenshots, but I'm too rocky to post answers with images)

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    3 Finger drag is currently found under Accessibility -> Mouse & Trackpad -> Trackpad Options -> ✓ Enable dragging -> three finger drag
    – Harry B
    Commented Oct 3, 2019 at 18:56
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It works with Three finger scroll on the Track pad.

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It works for me on MBP trackpad as well as on Magic Trackpad.

The clue is to enable "Three finger drag" in Trackpad settings (Preferences.app), then dragging, while ALT+SHIFT are pressed, makes scrolling work as expected.

It also works with the "Three finger scroll".

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    Sorry didn't mean to down vote but this is just the same as ALT+SHIFT and normal click, no need to enable Three finger drag to do this.
    – Oliver P
    Commented Jun 8, 2016 at 13:11

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