What I think they should do is just combine the UI for search and control center. If you start to use the search function the control center portion of the UI just goes away. Search is still crazy easy to get to and a search bar wouldn't take up a ton of space at the top of control center.
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Apple Community Envisions Better Ways to Activate Control Center on iPhone X
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Yeah. Haven't had it not work yet. I've haven't had a need to go further than just a couple back most times, but it's pretty convenient when I need it.
We saw a woman trying to achieve one of those gestures with here new iPhone X yesterday at a coffee shop,
She was contorting her hand and reaching and swiping and frustratingly not getting the result she wanted, then the phone fell out of her hand...
For a second I thought it was going to hit the stone floor... she let out a little "eek"... but it luckily landed in her giant purse that was on the floor next to her chair.
She looked down into the purse for a second, seeing it was okay I guess, and let out a an exasperated sigh.
She just went back to her coffee and her snack and left the X sitting in her purse, almost as if she was punishing it. We couldn't stop laughing.
No offense to her or anyone, but was this person elderly? The gestures aren't very difficult at all.
Am I the only one not enjoying the iPhone X? Everything just feels a little harder on it and it's just not a major leap from 6s to justify the price. I'm really disappointed in the screen and think it looks almost just like my 6s and frankly after 9 years, I think I'm just tired of iOS it hasn't really changed since it's launch and looking at rows of icons with tiny text names is just blah now.
of course its working for me atm. when i wrote the last post, i wasn't using the apps i was just swiping back and forth and swiping right to left did absolutely nothing. its been extremely sporadic for me. I go back to the last app alot, but what's the point in being able to swipe back and forth without using anything (since once you do swiping right to left doesn't work)? I would still rather use app switcher for searching for an open app and have easier access to control center.
Nope, she looked to be +/- 30 years old.
Coiffed and clothed and manicured to the nines.
guess i need to practice my right to left swiping
I go back all the time, but not forward since it doesn't work for me consistently.Apple should just define the available gesture/touch options, and let users define what they do, akin to how the response of tapping an AirPod can be customized.
If we call the current iPhone X Reachability "edge swipe" for example, then we could have the following available gestures:
That would address the subjective issues of preference, and the objective issues of left/right handedness.
If we call the current iPhone X Reachability "edge swipe" for example, then we could have the following available gestures:
- Left edge swipe
- Right edge swipe
- Bottom edge swipe
- Left full swipe
- Right full swipe
- Bottom full swipe
- Top left swipe
- Top right swipe
That would address the subjective issues of preference, and the objective issues of left/right handedness.
Problem is there's no search from within an app, or from the lockscreen (I don't think)
I think they mean swipe up on each app in the app switcher to quickly close apps instead of hold them again and have to reach each red "close" circle. I agree 100%.
It'll be 2070 and I'll still be explaining to my sister that force quitting Messages after every time she opens it to send one text is pointless and does more harm than good.
And she'll still do it.
I really hope the new UI in the X makes people realize this. I've already exhausted all explanations that I can think of and haven't gotten through to my family
Good so im not alone in this....
Apple could do it the same way across iPad & iPhone X, so swiping up from the bottom to bring up the dock and then the control centre. Then to get back to the home screen people could just pinch the screen with three or four fingers (also similar to iPad). Otherwise it’s just going to get confusing for people using both iPhones without home buttons & iPads.
Apple Watch has you pick right/left wrist during setup. Why would the phone not have the same option?
I see a couple of people have already said it is fine the way it is, but that means they are most likely right handed. Imagine if it was on the other corner - that is why it is an issue.
This is basically another "you're holding it wrong."
I see a couple of people have already said it is fine the way it is, but that means they are most likely right handed. Imagine if it was on the other corner - that is why it is an issue.
This is basically another "you're holding it wrong."
I understand the need for easier access to control center (believe me, I do!), but the swipe right to left is already being used and the functionality that is tied to the swipe right to left gesture doesn't make much sense when mapped to another gesture. There are other possibilities for accessing control center that I think should be discussed instead.
Maybe you use better quality apps. Or have better luck. It is quite often the case that apps I’m using stop functioning properly and won’t work until they’re forcibly restarted. And that means swiping them up out of the multi-tasking view.
It’s also useful for immediately terminating an app's access to cellular or location services, especially since some like to hang on too long in the background.
And then you have something like Minecraft which tries to be fancy and dynamically set your render distance on startup based on available memory (vs itself seeing how much iOS will give it). So you have to close out anything using memory prior t launch if you want to maximize your render distance.
Finally, some people just like keeping their device “clean” and can’t help but want to close stuff.
I get that. But the reason why you have to hard press to activate app closures is because if you swipe up without doing that, it will think you want to go home and that's what it will do. So that is a way of differentiating these 2 commands.
