I've already suggested it to Apple as a UI/Usability bug report. I really hope they do it. For that matter, why not allow Safari tabs to be dismissed in both directions, too? Why only left?
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Annoying little arrow in beta 4
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I've already suggested it to Apple as a UI/Usability bug report. I really hope they do it. For that matter, why not allow Safari tabs to be dismissed in both directions, too? Why only left?
No. That looks very off-center.
This thread is silly. People complain about the weirdest things...
Steve Jobs use to obsess over small details as well. Sometimes it can make a big difference.
My guess is either that or, more likely, apple only has patents on sliding left to right.
Not at all.
All I was getting at was that if you need the help of an arrow to tell you which direction to slide, look elsewhere.
Besides, at this point in the game, if you picked up an iPhone, why would you swipe in any other direction? Do you not know the unlock direction from the last 6 years?
The (even just small) gain in usability with the added arrow overrides the minuscule loss in aesthetics (if any at all). And that's the attention to detail. There's really all there's to it...certainly not enough to "discuss" for 7 pages.Steve Jobs use to obsess over small details as well. Sometimes it can make a big difference.
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Natural for whom? Is unlocking something that should be related to ease and natural feeling or should it be about a specific and deliberate action they needs to be taken to unlock the phone?
Perhaps all the more reason to have the unlock be somewhat more deliberate than "natural".
Seriously, there is a patent that does not allow them to add a feature that would allow a user to swipe either way to unlock? That is ridiculous if true. I am left handed, but I always use my phone with my right hand, so I was just using a left handed person as an example. I just think that swiping either way to unlock the phone makes the most sense. Why not just have a left handed option on the phone, where you can swipe either way to unlock the phone, and maybe have an option to swipe in the opposite direction in order to go through screens? I know Im asking for a lot, but would it be that difficult?
If you are right handed it is, but it could be different if you are left handed. I tried it with my left hand, and it just felt weird.
As far as the arrow is concerned, I think it just looks out of place. It should be something that can be turned off in the settings.
So that there's less of a possibility of unlocking the phone unintentionally--simply by taking it out of your pocket while (accidentally) touching part of the screen, or something similar.
We've already seen quite a few posts of people suddenly running into issues with the phone unlocking unintentionally since they've installed iOS 7, with the likely cause being that the unlock action now can be activated anywhere on the screen (rather than in a particular part of the screen like before) and only requires a swipe of about 1/3 of the screen for it to take (rather than at least 2/3 if not more before). Simplifying unlocking even further (like making it possible to do it in any direction) would likely only make that issue worse.
The whole lock part there is to prevent anything unintentional, so unlocking should be something quite intentional (more or less as it was before iOS 7 even).
I see your point, but I think the answer is to make it harder to unlock by accident, not to limit the ways we can unlock it on purpose. For example, perhaps it could require a swipe across 2/3 of the screen for it to unlock. Something like that.
I can see some improvements in general, just as long as they don't come at the cost of actual usefulness of the locking itself. Seems like they already have some of that usefulness unfortunately lost or at least degraded (more for some than others) with the new way things are in iOS 7.
Tech Patents are ridiculous by nature. Think of it this way, look at all the different ways Android phones have to design their unlock screens as to not infringe on Apple Patents.
There is no easy answer to this. You need to protect innovation and IP, but stuff like this is ridiculous.
For me, I think it's just the style of the arrow that I don't like rather than the fact it's there at all. It should really be on the right side, and have a more curved design, similar to the Notification Centre and Control Centre lines but obviously pointy.