# Long Press

#### Long Press

Long-press actions are common interaction patterns used in mobile devices to perform specific actions or access additional functionalities such as **navigation, refreshing screens, opening up contextual menus, drag-and-drop** and so on.

Sofy allows you to register a long press while automating your tests. They are easy to perform and work just like how they would on a real mobile device.

Here's how you can perform a Long Press action in Sofy

1. Acquire a device from the **Device Lab** and open up your app. For demonstration purposes, here we will use the in-built Google Maps app

2. To perform a Long Press action, click on a point on the mobile app & **continue holding your click for 3 seconds.**

You will see that the Long Press action gets recorded in your test & similar to what is shown below, a "Drop Pin" action is performed at a particular point in the Map:

3. This Long Press action is also visible in the **Offline Test Edit** mode where the label **"Long Press"** is appended underneath the particular long-pressing step:

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