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Here's What the Status Bar and iPad-Style Dock Could Look Like on 'iPhone 8'
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But that requires something be enabled in Settings before it's used. The beauty of the home button is that it's just there.
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It's not the fact that Apple is eliminating the home button that's irking people. Rather, it's their implementation of it's replacement. For a company that once prided itself on the iPhone being "usable", having hidden gestures used to control everything on a phone is not ideal.
I just can’t un-see Bert’s unibrow with the “notch” not being blended into a black bar on the top.
Oh, I shudder to think what finger gesture my mother-in-law and father-in-law will give to their phones when the home button is no longer an option for them. Fortunately, their current iPhones with home buttons will continue to serve them well for a couple more years.
I'm looking forward to the new paradigm for myself, but I do wonder how the over 80 year olds in my family would react to it. My dad is 80 and so far he's keeping up well, but my in-laws in their mid 80's are struggling with their iPhones when they travel. We switched them over to voice based calling on Amazon Echo at home.
Assuming the 8S will have a fingerprint sensor under the screen, that doesn't mean it will have a virtual Home Button in it's software. It would be more plausible to assume Apple would stick with the "Swipe Up to Home Screen" gesture and just have an area pop up indicating where you should be placing your finger when you need to unlock your phone or make an in-app purchase (kind of like when you make an in-app purchase now, only it would show you where the sensor is). Adding a virtual home button takes up a lot of space that Apple is trying to get rid of by doing away with the physical home button. Also, don't forget that Apple is way too proud to get rid of something, only to bring it back the following year...
That is ugly in my unimportant opinion. I hope they dont do that. At least put the wireless items on the left and the clock on the right with the battery...offer some sort of symmetry. I’d forgo the battery percentage always on in exchange for seeing it when i pull the Notification Center or control center up
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Link also: https://9to5mac.com/2017/07/30/iphone-8-design-and-face-unlock-homepod-code/
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Ok. Admittedly it still looks dated, ugly and ... dated. But even I cant believe Apple would have the nerve to release that in the next fortnight and call it "new".
There's a limit to loyalty and that effort would test the most fanatical. So I say too much conjecture and subjectivity prevailing to make any accurate mockup with the limited information presently.
Surely.
There's a limit to loyalty and that effort would test the most fanatical. So I say too much conjecture and subjectivity prevailing to make any accurate mockup with the limited information presently.
Surely.
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Just not sure why Apple would leave the background of the "ears" a continuation of the background image, instead of just keeping it black with contrasting white to show the time, battery, wifi / cell status info.
There just isn't a good reason to have that space, separated by the cut-out area for the camera and sensors, be part of the overall background - until app designers somehow purposely incorporate these areas into their apps. I know I don't want the sensor area cutting off that portion of photos or videos, so why try to make it something it isn't?
There just isn't a good reason to have that space, separated by the cut-out area for the camera and sensors, be part of the overall background - until app designers somehow purposely incorporate these areas into their apps. I know I don't want the sensor area cutting off that portion of photos or videos, so why try to make it something it isn't?
Yeah enough with carrier branding. You get your phone on contract or retail, you get the contract/month to month or prepaid, you PAY the bill so who doesn't know what carrier you're on? Roaming agreements and infrastructure setup properly and less of a problem lately ... means there is no need!
Things are going to get exciting in 3weeks!
It's inevitable however, but their stance with iOS 7 may justify it. The saying back then was that people today are now familiar with these smartphones. The home button was a guaranteed safe-haven to get back to the home screen for the world that was foreign to the concept, but today it's beyond the norm. Allowing for more wiggle-room, I undoubtedly believe that these gestures will become the norm for the years to come, but just like USB-C, the transition period will be felt.
the notch is bad no matter how you slice the cake.
the notch looks better in black, because regardless of iOS color palettes, there are going to be plenty of things that are not black or white (videos, pictures, third party apps, etc.) and the black is less obtrusive
The carrier name is the first thing I thought about. I hope it’s gone and we don’t have to see it on the home screen anymore, but somehow I’m not getting my hopes up.
I think iOS 10 with the lock/unlocked status on the lock screen gives us the best hint of this, along with the beta of iOS 11 treating the notification shade & lock screen as a ‘cover sheet’.
When pulling the phone out of pocket, raising it will light up the screen, and Face ID will put the phone into an unlocked state. Look at notifications if you need or slide up from the bottom to get to the home screen. Similar to current iPhones on iOS 11 where you slide up from the bottom once you’ve pulled down the cover sheet / Notification Center.
I really hope they've optimized this setup for speed... Swiping up half the screen isn't a convenient way for getting back to the home screen at all. The thing about a button is that it's super fast. One press for home, two for multitasking. Dead simple.
In the swiping world however, you gotta go through this mess: Swipe up a couple centimeters to get to the dock, swipe up another couple centimeters to get to the multitasking window and continue swiping up for the home screen. Just how irritating is that!? That's how it works on my iPad Pro currently and it's my least favorite feature of iOS 11 on iPad thus far.
In the swiping world however, you gotta go through this mess: Swipe up a couple centimeters to get to the dock, swipe up another couple centimeters to get to the multitasking window and continue swiping up for the home screen. Just how irritating is that!? That's how it works on my iPad Pro currently and it's my least favorite feature of iOS 11 on iPad thus far.
I still believe they’ll hide the clock if you’re wearing an Apple Watch. I’m mean, it’s just so obvious. Also, now that’s I’m running iOS 11 beta and noticed that the clock is there in the Notification Center Notification area on (as opposed to widget area) on first swipe down I don’t really know why it’s necessary to have on screen most of the time (unless an app is hiding it).
Pretty soon you won't even be able to LOOK an an iOS device, much less pick one up, without setting something off. Something tells me they aren't saying "No" nearly enough.
why? if I'm already looking at my phone, why would I want to look down at my watch?
That does seem a little odd. My guess is that video would cut off like bezels, and the "ears" would be used in certain apps where there is status type of information being displayed.
Because they’ll want to save room for status bar icons and no one needs the time constantly in 3 different places in the UI. This would only be for the iPhone 8 with the split status bar. Besides, Apple does a lot of unpopular things and this makes sense for their quest for a clean UI.