Depends on the size of your hands. I'm a girl, and the way I hold my phone when using it one handed I can't reach control center. I haven't dropped my phone yet, but it's uncomfortable and awkward and can become a bit of a balancing act
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Apple Community Envisions Better Ways to Activate Control Center on iPhone X
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Depends on the size of your hands. I'm a girl, and the way I hold my phone when using it one handed I can't reach control center. I haven't dropped my phone yet, but it's uncomfortable and awkward and can become a bit of a balancing act
Yes but what they should change is that you have to swipe up from the bottom to go home. swiping up from the app should kill the app. no need to be able to swipe up from the middle of the app switcher to go home. keep the home gesture consistent (from the bottom)
Depends on the size of your hands. I'm a girl, and the way I hold my phone when using it one handed I can't reach control center. I haven't dropped my phone yet, but it's uncomfortable and awkward and can become a bit of a balancing act
Well yea, but you could also hold in your left hand and swipe down with your right. That's what I typically do when using in a normal matter. If I have to use one hand, I probably don't need to be in control center for what I am trying to do. Every situation is different though.
Because after swiping to the previous app, you can then swipe the other way to get back to the app you were just in.
Actually they should change absolutely nothing on gestures and I hope they don't.. It works pretty darn well for me and any other I know who have it. Just make them work faster. Obviously people would moan about anything so this is not an exception. What I like them to add and I think it makes more sense is an option to go straight to home screen after Face ID scan. I wouldn't use it but I know many who have complained. Even though I know for sure that they will complain about missing lock screen notifications then because It unlocks tight away (like they did with Touch ID) but at least they will have the option.
Yes... this is the thing I hate, it's so much slower to close an app/move between apps now.
It's worse than the control centre
It's not a problem at all when using two hands, but I find I need it quite often when using one hand (adjusting brightness, volume, music control, turning lights on and off in my house while having my hands full...)
I wholeheartedly agree, and it would be the best way to fix their fustercluck of an interface, but this is Apple we're talking about here...customization is a BIG, BIG NO-NO.
well good for you and the others you know?
I understand the debate on other gestures, but swiping up to close an app in app switcher... I'm not sure how you argue against. swiping up on the app is how it's always been done why do we have to long press it first now? swiping up from bottom will still take you home and swiping up on the apps would close them. In what world does it make sense to swipe up from the app in app switcher to go home?
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
hahaha i feel like eeeeeeveryone is doing this. i only do it for badly coded apps like fb, insta, snapchat and twitter
iPad has already solved this. Control Center is the right-most item in the App Switcher. No idea why Apple didn't do this right off the bat with iPhone X.
Add Control Center as a permanent "Card" on the App Switcher, right-most position. Anytime you evoke App Switcher, it would be to the right of the current card.
MR members tell users to post feedback and file bug reports because "Apple listens". But when users do post feedback and file bug reports, they are dismissed as "armchair designers".
After nearly dropping my new iPhone X on the street this morning trying to access Control Center, I began playing around Accessibility settings. These settings help tremendously. Open Setting > General > Accessibility > AssistiveTouch to give it a try for yourself.
If you have Wi-Fi & Cellular Data option turned on for background app refresh it doesn't matter if the app is running in the foreground, open in the background, in app switcher or you force close it. It can still use cellular data for background updates. The app doesn't have to be open to use cellular to do that unless you turn off that option or the app for background updates.
This really isn't how it works at all. iOS doesn't magically tell how much ram an app will get when it starts.
And besides when you go home from an app or switch to another app, GC happens really fast in the background on iOS and apps get really small in there ram footprint pretty quickly. So apps that have been running in the background for even a short period of time will have a large part of there ram usage cleared up very quickly when something else opens or they are just paused.
At that price point this thing ought to be able to read my mind and just bring up Control Center without me telling it.
One of the biggest software changes on Apple's new iPhone X is the location of Control Center, the useful user interface that provides you with quick access to music playback controls, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi toggles, the flashlight, calculator, and much more thanks to iOS 11's customizable layout. On pre-iPhone X devices, the Control Center is awoken by swiping up from the bottom edge of the device. Because that action is now the default "go home" gesture on iPhone X, Apple has moved Control Center to the top right edge of the smartphone.
This location change has removed the simplicity and ease-of-access to Control Center for many iPhone X users -- particularly those who are left handed -- who have been posting about the iPhone X-specific issue in the MacRumors forums, Twitter, and on Reddit. Some of these users have also provided interesting alternative locations and invoking gestures that Apple could potentially implement in future iOS updates, but it should be reiterated that these are simply community ideas and not in any way an indication that we'll see them added to the iPhone X.
How to activate Control Center on iPhone X
Reddit has been the source of multiple ideas for new Control Center gestures on the iPhone X, with a few that replace existing gestures (so you'd have to choose between two options in Settings) and some that are new. One user theorized that the iPhone X's new Reachability gesture (swiping down on the Home indicator, which must be activated in Settings) could have an alternate option for invoking Control Center.
Further threads provided variations on this idea: 3D Touch on the Home indicator for Reachability and pulling down on the indicator for Control Center, or keeping Reachability as it is and using 3D Touch on the Home indicator for Control Center. The 3D Touch solution has been put forward by multiple people over the last few days and appears to be a favorite, particularly because Reachability's new swipe-down gesture on the Home indicator can be difficult to execute and could potentially be an even more frustrating location for Control Center.
Other ideas have been shared on the MacRumors forums, including one that could be an additional option for the swipe-down gesture that enacts Search anywhere on the Home Screen, but that would make Control Center impossible to call up within apps. iOS developer Guilherme Rambo posted his own idea on Twitter this week, suggesting that a 3D Touch edge swipe could house Control Center. Currently, this is used as an app switching gesture, which Apple at first removed from iOS 11 and then brought back in a later update, so it's another idea where you'd have to pick one setting over another.
While Rambo's idea appears to be focused on Control Center replacing an app switcher gesture, a few users have also had ideas where Control Center is added into the app switcher. In these, you'd swipe up and hold to access other apps as normal, and Control Center would potentially be the first app you see instead of the last-used app. Or, Apple could place it on the right side of the app switcher, as one Redditor posited. Another mockup by Twitter user @jwangARK placed buttons under the app switcher for easy access to both Notifications and Control Center.
Another iOS developer, Riley Testut, theorized a simple solution that would place Control Center at the bottom right edge of the iPhone X display instead of the top right edge, while swiping up from the center would still go Home. A few iPhone X users have also pointed towards Assistive Touch in Accessibility as a workaround for easier Control Center activation, but that comes with a permanent, virtual Home Button on your iPhone screen, which will be a hard trade-off for some iPhone X owners.
With the iPhone X out in the wild for one full week as of today, November 10, the location of Control Center is one of a few gripes that early adopters have had with Apple's newest smartphone. Another notable point of contention focused on the iPhone X keyboard's "wasted space", with users presenting a few potential solutions to that as well, including placing recently used emoji or punctuation in the empty field below the space bar.
Make sure to check out our iPhone X Roundup for more details on the smartphone's new features.
Article Link: Apple Community Envisions Better Ways to Activate Control Center on iPhone X
uses their X with two hands. My attached concept will solve the issue. Add it to the App Switcher, always the right-most card.
Not only could you get to it from the App Switcher, but swiping across the Home Bar right-to-left, from the current app, would get there.
Not only could you get to it from the App Switcher, but swiping across the Home Bar right-to-left, from the current app, would get there.
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3D Touch on the side to bring up multitasking is horrible. I never used it.