SafePhone · Getting started

Use 3-button navigation

Learn to use 3-button navigation, in 4 short steps.

4 steps · about 3 minutes · practice it with SafePhone Pro

Step by step

  1. Open "Settings".
  2. Scroll down and tap "System".
  3. Tap "System navigation".
  4. Choose "3-button navigation". (You can switch back to gestures in the same place.)

These steps are written for SafePhone, a pretend Android-style smartphone in your web browser. On your own smartphone, the buttons and menus may look a little different, but the idea is the same.

Practice it where nothing can break

SafePhone works like a real smartphone, but nothing you do goes anywhere. Try every button, make mistakes and start again.

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