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Top 10 Tips for the BlackBerry 10 Hub

By Simon Sage on 12 Feb 2013 04:03 pm
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So you just got your brand new BlackBerry Z10 and are already knee-deep in the Hub. At first, there's an awful lot that's familiar here to BlackBerry veterans, but there are a whole bunch of tips and tricks that old-schoolers and noobies alike may miss at first.

BlackBerry always had a unified inbox, but the BlackBerry 10 Hub is much more than that. Seeing as this is where every kind of notification is lumped together, it seemed important to highlight some less-than-obvious tips that can make getting around the Hub a ton easier.

Without further ado, here are our top ten BlackBerry 10 Hub tips!

TEN MUST-KNOW BLACKBERRY 10 HUB TIPS

1. Peek into the Hub from anywhere by swiping up and to the right from the bottom of the screen.

2. Swiping up from the bottom of the Hub while keeping a finger on screen pulls in a compact sidebar with a notification count, similar to the standard peek gesture.

3. Instead of long-pressing, releasing, and tapping again on the contextual menu, drag your finger following the pop-up and release on the command you wish to select. Additional contextual options are hidden behind an overflow menu represented by an icon with three dots.

4. Long press a date marker to mark prior opened in the contextual menu.

5. Scroll up past the top of your messages to see your upcoming calendar items.

6. Tap the bottom-left icon to filter which notifications are shown in the Hub.

7. To select multiple messages, long press on a single one and pick Select More.

8. To remove sections from the Hub, tap the overflow menu button in the bottom-right, go to Settings, Hub Management, and toggle at will.

9. To hide the unread count from the Hub filter pane, tap the overflow menu in the bottom-right, tap Settings, and Display and Actions. After toggling Display Message Count, the count will still show up from the lock screen.

10. To jump back to Hub filter navigation, swipe to the right from the back button in the bottom left (see video explanation). This will summon a compact root-level filter menu, so you can jump elsewhere without having to swipe back multiple times to get to the primary Hub screen. 

More BlackBerry 10 Tips and Tricks 

BlackBerry Z10 owners, what hidden gems have you found in the Hub? Are there any shortcuts you miss from the old BlackBerry OS? 

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vgorous

Do a video.

zeratul65535

+2 also, a section for Z10 / bb10 how-to videos would be awesome. unless it already exists and i've missed it. in which case, nevermind.

Kevin Michaluk

Stay tuned.. video coming shortly!

Simon Sage

Ask and ye shall receive. 

jenks5150

The only one I'm not getting (or maybe overthinking) is the second tip.

PatrickMJS

I agree with Jenks.

When I pull up from the bottom of the hub, I see a little sidebar appear to the right. It has one little icon, a closed envelope, with the number 5 immediately under it.

If I move my finger back to the bottom, the sidebar goes away and I'm back to the hub. If I lift my finger from the glass or swipe to the right, I leave the hub & go back to the home screen.

Fine, I get it. But what are these 5 messages or notifications? I've gone through everything and don't see anything that is still marked unopened. At the top of the hub, I used tip # 4. The envelope icon is still at 5.

And why can't I tap on that icon to see those 5 messages, alerts, whatever they are?

JDM08

Could 5 be the number of app you have open?

jaycee58

Thank God I'm not alone!

jaycee58

Thank God I'm not alone! It just takes me back to the active frames.

andrewmcwhirter

I did not know I could long press a date to mark previous read! Thats awesome.

etumang

Agreed! I was trying to find a way to do this, definitely a good tip.

buckwylder

When I am in the Hub and I swipe up from the bottom, it gives me a glimpse of the next card (home screen or running apps) on the right side of the screen. If I keep swiping up with my finger, it simply reveals the home or apps card completely. So, number 2 confuses me a little too.
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kw9700

Ok, the 5 swipe HUB reset that Kevin posted earlier today.
HOW IT NOT MAKE THIS LIST?!

owadkelly

Yes, how comes the hub restart is not apart of this list... I was looking specifically for that

MozThaGreat

Question: So with Twitter, exactly what shows up in the hub? Is it the @ mentions and the DMs? or can you choose between the two? Like I only want DMs in the Hub and a spark over the Twitter icon with the @ mentions and everything else.

Being able to customize what shows up exactly in the Hub with an app like Twitter would be huge to me.

cobbie98

omg how do you make the hub fold away like in the first picture?!

timmsy

number 2 is wrong, if you slide up it just puts the home screen into view not a sidebar, if you keep swiping up it moves to the center of the screen and your back on the home screen, it jsut thinks you are about to peek back to where you were after peeking into the hub.

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mike1123

Is there a way to delete many messages at once instead of selecting them all one at a time.