Gestures

Since firmware 1.1.0, ZeroKeyUSB is driven by swiping your finger across the gold dots instead of pressing them one by one. You no longer have to hit a small dot exactly: what counts is the direction your finger travels. If you prefer the classic way, you can switch back to pressing the dots in Menu → Settings → Control (see Buttons or Gestures).

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Every screen looks the same

Every screen has the same three parts, so once you know one you know them all:

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The moves

Think of it as dragging the screen, like on a phone: when you swipe right to left, the next account slides in from the right. On the few screens with a cursor — the on-device editor, the 2FA date and time, the search — the cursor simply follows your finger. A swipe goes across the centre dot: from one edge dot, through the centre, to the opposite edge dot. Taps are forgiving too: touching the centre together with a neighbour, or all five dots at once, still counts as a centre tap.

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Nothing changes without moving

Whatever changes slides in the direction of your finger: the next field rises from below, the next account comes in from the right. Only the part that changes moves — the top row stays still.

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Keep your finger down

• In lists (the menu, the PIN wheel), swipe and keep your finger on the last dot to keep moving.
• On your accounts, swipe sideways and keep your finger down to jump 10 accounts at once.

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Touched a single edge dot?

Touching only an edge dot does nothing — it would be too easy to do by accident. Instead, a small picture appears showing the swipe that does what you wanted.

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Entering the PIN

The PIN screen follows the same rules. On the right there is a wheel: the selected number is lit, with the one before it above and the next one below. The digits you have entered sit to its left. A tap does nothing on the PIN screen, so the PIN can never be confirmed by accident.

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The tutorial

The first time you set up the device, a short animated tutorial teaches each move: it shows the swipe, waits for you to do it and says Great! when you get it right. Hold the centre to skip a lesson. You can replay it any time from Menu → Settings → Tutorial.

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Buttons or Gestures

Menu → Settings → Control switches between:

• Gestures (default): everything described on this page.
• Buttons: the classic way — each dot is a button you press (Up, Down, Left, Right, Centre). The screens and the menus are the same; on the PIN screen the arrow points at the Right dot, which adds the number.

Switching to Gestures runs the tutorial straight away. To switch back, open the same entry and tap the centre — that works in both modes.

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Right- or left-handed

Menu → Settings → Hand turns the screen round so you can hold the device with the dots on either side (Right-handed is the default). The moves stay the same for your finger: “up” is always towards the top of the screen as you read it.

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Next steps