Customizable taps on TouchID button!

I would love for Apple to give us the ability to customize actions for taps on TouchID button. I hardly use "Reachability" so I would prefer to have the task-switcher come up with double-taps. Other things I can think of is: a single tap to exit to Home-screen; three taps to perform other actions; etc. This would reduce the strain on the button. For people who don't prefer this, they would still have the physical home button to do what they want. And, yes, I know jailbreak will give us this feature but not everyone jailbreaks.

How many of you would prefer this customizability?

Only 5 people interested? LOL!

Atomic Walrus said:

I think the guy with the "porcupine" option in his poll got it right, you need a troll sink when you create a poll.

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LOL!

jsmith189 said:

I guess the option wouldn't hurt. I wouldn't turn it on by default, there would be far too many people "accidentally" brushing past their home button and something strange happening.

Reachability is one of my favourite things about the iPhone 6+, by the way.

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I can understand your concern but I have yet to "accidentally" brush up against the home button. I guess an option to disable the tap feature would help people who have this issue.

carjakester said:

the virtual home tweak is my favorite, and the reason i can't wait to jailbreak.

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I might have to jailbreak again just for this.

myscrnnm said:

A lot of people seem to use that as an argument against having a touch-sensitive home button. But don't they realize that Androids and Windows Phones also have touch-sensitive home buttons, and I've never heard a complaint about accidentally pressing them.

I actually find that the touch-sensitive portion of the iPhone 6 home button is very hard to activate accidentally. You need to make contact with the metal ring it seems.

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I agree!

sviato said:

Not sure what "strain on the home button" you're talking about - I've never had home button issues. The home button's durability was improved after the iPhone 4 days.

I don't think I'd use these tap options, but I guess they're be good to have for those who do. Though I think it's unlikely Apple will allow that kind of customization.

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It may have been improved but I've had home buttons on two iPhones (4S and 5) go bad after about 1.5 years of usage.

Surf Monkey said:

Not sure how much flexibility is available there. For example: some click combinations are used for Universal Access. One might reasonably assume that Apple has reserved taps for similar future functionality. Just a thought...

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Universal Access?

nepalisherpa said:

Universal Access?

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You mean Guided Access?

Just bumping the thread to see if any more people would vote.