Not to be mean but the touch bar on the MacBook Pro is pretty useless. Seems more of a hassle since you can easily get to the same function with a simple click.
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How a Home Button and Function Bar Could Work on the 'iPhone 8'
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- I'd say mind the raise to awake for unlocking process.
- That second picture is simply torturing my occipital lobe. Sadly we're dealing with rotten apple, so, it's a possibility.
- It can be really cool to have a function bar for many possible shortcuts, customisation possibilities like we have in the OS X task-bar. (I've been waiting a sliding dock for years.)
- The reality is we're probably getting emoji shortcut on the left corner and camera shortcut on the right, fixed! Maybe a Siri shortcut, too.
- And Siri will definitely get smarter and answer questions about WWE results.
The home button where it is in the first example is just wasting so much space and look so odd. There is no way Apple would do it like that. It's at least 20% too high thus wasting a ton more screen space then is necessary. A current iPhone 7 has the home button place much closer to the bottom of the phone.
I completely agree. I am not happy about this rumor at all. 0.65 inches of I personally believe, wasted space. I really hope this is just early testing that is being rumored. They must surely be able to make the bottom 0.65 inches of the screen be used normally like everyone is used to. I want a minimum of 5.5 inches screen size, anything smaller will feel like a huge downgrade. If it isn't broken, don't fix it.
Yes. Or offer an even larger model. I'll take a 6/7" screen if the phone is the same size as my 7 Plus.
Which is what you would have said when the mouse was first looked at... "But the function keys do that".
I keep saying it and I'll say it again, this years (or next) iPhone will have a TouchBar on the bottom.
Everyone thinks I'm crazy so we will see what Apple does.
Everyone thinks I'm crazy so we will see what Apple does.
You should probably get a 4G 12.9" iPad Pro & use it as a phone.
That, really, is the PERFECT size for a phone.
#letsdontberidiculous
Why? You don't need the home button to do a force restart on the 7. You use the volume down button instead.
I don't know if you have an iPhone 6s or 7 but 3D Touch enliminates this problem completely.
True, I'm saying that if all buttons are replaced with virtual buttons when Apple completely encloses the iPhone in glass with no buttons or ports.
there is zero chance that the area will be dedicated. It will be just like the keyboard, when you need it there it is, when you don't its gone and the screen fills the space. Likely the swipe up gesture will bring up the function area and then if you swipe up from there control centre comes up
I don't get it. Don't you always need a home button displayed? When would I ever be doing something where I wouldn't need the home button? Maybe movies. What other uses for not being able to quickly return home would make the devices easier?
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This could make sense, but I feel like it will hinder multitasking. I never got used to gestured multitasking, and still use the home button on my iPad.
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This could make sense, but I feel like it will hinder multitasking. I never got used to gestured multitasking, and still use the home button on my iPad.
I agree. It looks very strange. The idea of a function area puts me off completely. For me, it defeats the purpose of removing the bottom bezel. Having the function area is, in effect, a glorified bezel. Apple should remove the bezel and keep the functionality of the current home button beneath the display.
I think they are going to keep same haptic home button. It makes even more sense now if the bottom row is only for function items.
The most logical solution would be to fuse this function bar area and app specific bottom row of controls. Having them one above the other as shown in these mockups is just ugly and wrong. Most probably you'll get a system icon representing the home button and its functions (like the volume button on Macbook Pro touch bar), sitting in the corner alongside other app specific buttons.
The home button has to be always on otherwise how could get out of an app if the app is taking the whole screen. Home button is like an emergency exit button it has to be always on display.
I totally love this idea of touch function area. It will make things simpler, when everything is going touch then why the homescreen button should be pressed 
I am all for this idea if Apple pulls it off (which I'm sure they will). As displays go bigger, it's a good idea to have key features and shortcuts lower down to make it as usable as possible with one hand.
Samsung has been in that territory for a long time but I never found it intuitive to have constant touch buttons in the bezel. I also found it incredibly annoying on other android phone to have the function area eating up space of the display. That's why I like where the LG G6 is heading as well as these iPhone 8 concepts.
Samsung has been in that territory for a long time but I never found it intuitive to have constant touch buttons in the bezel. I also found it incredibly annoying on other android phone to have the function area eating up space of the display. That's why I like where the LG G6 is heading as well as these iPhone 8 concepts.