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Pull to load today

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Pulling down at the top of a screen takes you somewhere, and what that somewhere is can be configured.

Why you'd care

On a phone, the top of the screen is the hardest place to reach and the pull-down gesture is the easiest. Whatever you bind it to becomes the cheapest action in the app.

The 60-second version

Pull down at the top of any screen and you land on Today. That is the default everywhere, on every screen. Point it somewhere else, capture included, in Settings → Appearance & Accessibility → Default pull down.

Going further

It is a gesture, not a sync button. Pulling down does not fetch your data. Sync runs continuously in the background whether you pull or not.

It can reload the page instead of leaving it. "Refresh this page" is one of the destinations, and it reloads whatever you are looking at in place rather than navigating away. It is the only destination that keeps you where you are.

It does not have to be a view. A specific list is a valid destination, which is worth doing if you spend most of your day in one.

It can be turned off entirely. Setting the destination to "None" means nothing happens when you pull, and the spinner does not appear either. Gestures set to none also disables swipe actions.

There is no pull-down on web or desktop. The gesture is a touch gesture, so it only exists on iPhone, iPad and Android. The same stored destination is still used there: web and desktop reach it with the Quick view shortcut, ⌘⇧0, and the settings row is called Quick view rather than Default pull down. Change it in either place and both follow.

Settings that change this

Tips

  • Leave it on Today if you mostly navigate, and point it at capture if you mostly write.
  • Do not point it at the same place as start-on. Two different destinations give you two one-gesture places instead of one.
  • It pairs well with a nav bar that does not contain either, freeing a tab slot.