Imagine your touchscreen is like a big plate of cookies, and when you tap it, you’re secretly pressing down on invisible cookies. Each cookie tells the screen where your finger was, that’s how it knows to show the right picture or letter.
Examples
- Your finger is like a cookie press on an invisible plate of cookies.
- You tap your phone, it knows where you tapped because of the invisible cookies.
- If you press harder on your screen, it can tell how hard you pressed.
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See also
- Why Do Smartphones Use So Much Battery When You're Just Looking at Them?
- How Do Touchscreens Actually Feel Your Touch?
- How Do Smartphones Know You're Looking at the Screen?
- How Can a Single Phone Know Where You Are?
- How Do Touchscreens Actually Know You're Tapping?