20 questions with Surface | Surface earbuds | Touch and gestures tags

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Mute Gesture for Teams

I am trying to figure out if there is a gesture to mute and unmute myself during a Teams call. Is this currently an option?

Surface | Surface earbuds | Touch and gestures
asked 2020-05-13T21:53:13+00:00
Anonymous
3 answers

Touchpad scroll speed

Is there any way to increase the speed of scrolling via two-finger drag?  The scroll speed in the settings panel appears only to work with a traditional mouse.  I would like the scroll to be about twice as sensitive.

Surface | Surface earbuds | Touch and gestures
asked 2016-11-12T14:02:24+00:00
Anonymous
5 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Touch Screen control via finger does not work at times.

sometimes the touch screen on surface pro 4 does not work and forced to use touch pad. why does this happen?

Surface | Surface earbuds | Touch and gestures
asked 2017-04-20T15:34:54+00:00
Anonymous
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Pinch and scroll not working in Maps

I have a new Surface 3 and everything is working great except that while in the Microsoft Maps application the screen controls are not working to pan and Zoom. Other touch controls are working in Maps to select the zoom in/out, layers, setup, etc. It…

Surface | Surface earbuds | Touch and gestures
asked 2016-10-29T11:36:52+00:00
Anonymous
6 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Can't double click on surface book touchscreen

I need to double click on an email in a list to open one.  But double clicking on surface book screen only makes the screen increase in size, not allowing me to select the email.  I tried the tap and a half and slide, and the slide to the right to…

Surface | Surface earbuds | Touch and gestures
asked 2016-08-10T17:35:27+00:00
Anonymous
3 answers

2 Finger Drag and Scroll?

I'm assuming that the two finger drag and scroll would allow you to grab a window at the top with two fingers and move it around. Is this correct?  I'm unable to do this and the setting is enabled. If I put two fingers down on a window and try to drag…

Surface | Surface earbuds | Touch and gestures
asked 2015-10-29T23:07:47+00:00
Anonymous
9 answers

Text Box Problems On Facebook

* NOTE: all issues are when using Microsoft Edge Browser... BUT, my first "Surface RT" had the same exact problem, and it only had the "Internet Explorer" browser... When I'm typing in a text box, in Facebook (might also happen other…

Surface | Surface earbuds | Touch and gestures
asked 2016-10-28T17:44:58+00:00
Anonymous
16 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Surface touch screen works with pen, but not my finger

I can use my pen with the touch screen, but my Surface doesn't respond when I use my finger. What is the issue? I have already restarted twice. I don't think it's an update problem because I just downloaded updates two days ago.

Surface | Surface earbuds | Touch and gestures
asked 2014-08-23T04:09:38+00:00
Anonymous
3 answers

Gestures Control - Swipe left and right isn't working on my surface pro 3 after updating to windows 10

at first, it was working fine but all of sudden, it stopped working.  swipe from left and right does not trigger switching apps and action center nor swiping down to close the apps

Surface | Surface earbuds | Touch and gestures
asked 2015-08-16T15:05:42+00:00
Anonymous
3 answers

Closing Apps in the middle of typing.

I am sure it has to do with me swiping while in the keyboard.  THERE Has to be a way to turn it off or sensitivity down.  Be it Facebook or Yahoo Mail, etc.. in the middle of typing it closes the app.. One of many annoyances so far..  I am TRYING to love…

Surface | Surface earbuds | Touch and gestures
asked 2020-09-15T17:54:21+00:00
Anonymous
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

How do I sign an on screen signature?

I'm filling out an online application and it asks for me to sign my name and initials on the online touch screen. how do i do that?  thanks

Surface | Surface earbuds | Touch and gestures
asked 2017-04-18T18:56:15+00:00
Anonymous
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

right click not working surface

I recently purchased a Surface Pro. It has been doing great, but recently I installed a program on the desktop, and cannot perform a right click in the program while using the touch screen/pen. I can right click in the program if I have the type cover …

Surface | Surface earbuds | Touch and gestures
asked 2013-05-29T14:27:56+00:00
Anonymous
3 answers

Trackpad Multi-touch Gestures

Is there any way to use multi-touch gestures with the trackpad? I want to go back and forth with three-finger swiping when browsing. Thanks.

Surface | Surface earbuds | Touch and gestures
asked 2014-08-23T15:05:46+00:00
Anonymous
1 answer

EXTREME battery draining from my right bud

My right bud specifically apparently is incapable of holding a charge. The left works perfectly. 90% of the time I'm forced to only use the left one because of the right one's issue. They're always both in the case while the case itself in also plugged…

Surface | Surface earbuds | Touch and gestures
asked 2023-08-11T06:30:30+00:00
Anonymous
5 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

touch screen swipe back

Hi, One of my usual gestures on my touchscreen(not touchpad) to swipe back a page in chrome is no longer working. I loved this function. How can I fix or turn back on

Surface | Surface earbuds | Touch and gestures
asked 2018-05-17T13:32:21+00:00
Anonymous
3 answers

How can read PDFs page by page using a swipe motion?

Hi, I am new to working with PDF. I am looking for a way to swipe to advance and read through pdf pages. In other words, I have a number of pages of notes in pdf format that I would like to arrange in a certain order, and be able to rearrange as…

Surface | Surface earbuds | Touch and gestures
asked 2017-02-25T23:42:01+00:00
Anonymous
3 answers

My Surface Earbuds doesn't charge

I've tried all the recommendations, reset presing 20 seconds.., try to pair with the PC, with Mac... The light is always off. It doesn't respond. After a bit more of one year a 200€ device is out of support and it doesn't work. I see more people are…

Surface | Surface earbuds | Touch and gestures
asked 2022-11-26T10:37:14+00:00
Anonymous
2 answers

Surface Earbuds making random FaceTime calls to people in my contacts list

My Surface Earbuds will sometimes initiate random FaceTime calls and regular calls with people in my contacts list. It's not even recent contacts - they've been people I haven't talked to in years.  Seems related to the touch controls, like I…

Surface | Surface earbuds | Touch and gestures
asked 2020-07-21T19:40:12+00:00
Anonymous
9 answers

BUG: Right hand side of touchpad unresponsive to tap-to-click.

When the "...help prevent cursor accidentally moving while you type..." setting is set to anything other than no delay, then the right one-third of the touch pad is unresponsive to taps (tap-to-click) if the touchpad hasn't been touched for a…

Surface | Surface earbuds | Touch and gestures
asked 2015-11-20T21:55:12+00:00
Anonymous
1 answer

Surface Earbuds left side not charging

I have purchased the surface earbuds yesterday and after initial charge overnight observed that the left ear unit did not charge at all. It is clearly visible in the surface app that left ear unit is not charging while right side unit is 100%. I have…

Surface | Surface earbuds | Touch and gestures
asked 2022-07-15T02:21:42+00:00
Anonymous