Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Awful iPad experience coming from iPhone X

MyAppleWorld

MyAppleWorld

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Nov 1, 2005
630
103
Birmingham, UK
After using the iPhone X and muscles getting used to swipe down for control center etc does anyone else find the experience on iPad just so difficult to use? It might be better if they separated out control center from multi tasking or moved control centre to top right

It’s horrible
 
  • Like
Reactions: Trin813 and bruinsrme
MyAppleWorld said:
After using the iPhone X and muscles getting used to swipe down for control center etc does anyone else find the experience on iPad just so difficult to use? It might be better if they separated out control center from multi tasking or moved control centre to top right

It’s horrible
Click to expand...

I happen to agree. Honestly, though, Control Center is horrible on iPad Pro 12.9 etc anyway. Far too much effort to swipe up that far. Bleh.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Chupa Chupa and SDColorado
ericwn said:
We’ll file it under “first world problems “ ;)
Click to expand...

Would make sense since the iPad is a first world device. ;) Of course when you work hard to buy expensive devices you want them to make your life easier, so not a way out request that Apple better unify, simply, the iOS and iDevice experience.
[doublepost=1512833162][/doublepost]
WilliamG said:
I happen to agree. Honestly, though, Control Center is horrible on iPad Pro 12.9 etc anyway. Far too much effort to swipe up that far. Bleh.
Click to expand...

Yes, of late it seems Apple likes to change operations around for marketing purposes and has little to do with the user experience. It's like every version of iOS and every iDevice is designed from the ground up in it's own isolated bubble and never to engineers or designers between the various projects coordinate. Very un-Apple to me.
 
  • Like
Reactions: ShaunAFC3
MyAppleWorld said:
After using the iPhone X and muscles getting used to swipe down for control center etc does anyone else find the experience on iPad just so difficult to use? It might be better if they separated out control center from multi tasking or moved control centre to top right

It’s horrible
Click to expand...

I wouldn't call it "horrible" - maybe "slightly annoying" or "mildly disquieting".
 
  • Like
Reactions: ShaunAFC3 and TinyChip
MyAppleWorld said:
After using the iPhone X and muscles getting used to swipe down for control center etc does anyone else find the experience on iPad just so difficult to use? It might be better if they separated out control center from multi tasking or moved control centre to top right

It’s horrible
Click to expand...
Until the iPad has the same features as the phone, It's not really reasonable to expect it to work the same way. The iPads work great and did so before the X came out. It's the X that changed things up. You're just used to a different method now. Don't worry about it. Life goes on. In the future, new iPads that come with Face ID will work the same way. If they don't, then you can complain.
 
  • Like
Reactions: ShaunAFC3
If you have several Apple devices imo its really fun to use all the jestures. Man try working a iPod Classic with the click wheel. lol

It's really like going from a manual car to an automatic. Adjust and you'll be fine. Although I do like the touch i.d. best.
 
I have it the other way, wishing the iPhone X behaves the same as the iPad Pro, where swiping up from bottom brings up *BOTH* the control center and the multi-task screen / opened apps. The top edge, as hard as it is to reach one handed, should be reserved for just notification center, which usually is only needed when the phone is in locked state or when I have to check a past msg quick.

IMO, the need to access the home screen is hardly more frequent than to access opened apps and CC, on the iPad to go home screen I can just touch a blank space inside multi-task screen which is quick enough. Also I feel there is a case of under-utilized 3D touch here, for example, perhaps hard pressing the bottom area (where the home button used to be) could behave as a virtual home press?
 
  • Like
Reactions: ShaunAFC3
For now you still have home button on ipads to go home screen
Until next year ipads and ios 12 its no UI problem
 
  • Like
Reactions: ShaunAFC3
What I wonder is why not allow via toggle the option to have iPhone X gestures applicable across all devices on ios 11? Train people for the future and for those who are using the X unifying the experience.
 
No real issue for me. I rarely pull up notification center on either my iPads or iPhone; but even so, since I use my devices 50/50, my mind is pretty adjusted to the gesture differences between the two.
 
  • Like
Reactions: ShaunAFC3
I’m not trying to say anything rude or mean to the OP, but I’m unsure of why this is a big issue? I love my iPhone X’s design and lack of bezels, and new gestures, but I’ve always used gestures on my iPad so there hasn’t been any real adjustment for me except no FaceID.

While iOS11 started out bad on iPhones, it was and is a dream on the iPads and the new gestures and UI really made them great. Sure I’d love a new iPad Pro X, but currently I’ve nothing to complain about with the new iPads.
Are they different than the X by a bit? yeah they are a lot, but they should be. In my eyes the iPad with iOS 11 finally rivals mid to high-end laptops now.
I’m glad my phone is different, I’d hate to go back to them being the same UI.

The iPad is now its own device while iPhone is it’s own device too. :)



Kallum.
 
  • Like
Reactions: bensisko and ShaunAFC3
MyAppleWorld said:
After using the iPhone X and muscles getting used to swipe down for control center etc does anyone else find the experience on iPad just so difficult to use? It might be better if they separated out control center from multi tasking or moved control centre to top right

It’s horrible
Click to expand...
Im having no issues going back and forth.
 
  • Like
Reactions: ShaunAFC3
MyAppleWorld said:
After using the iPhone X and muscles getting used to swipe down for control center etc does anyone else find the experience on iPad just so difficult to use? It might be better if they separated out control center from multi tasking or moved control centre to top right

It’s horrible
Click to expand...

It was annoying at first, but I’ve adjusted after a couple of days
 
  • Like
Reactions: bensisko
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back