iOS 11 Dock and Gesture Controls to Replace 'iPhone 8' Home Button Entirely

[ConnYoungy]

How to unlock without a home button? I wonder if a swipe to unlock gesture may work...

 

[AfroAbel]

We whinge and moan on a semi-regular basis that Apple doesn’t do enough to push iPhone forward. Then we whinge and moan when they change too much. To hell with it, you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs and all that. I think we’re long overdue a major redesign to completely modernise iPhone and iOS and I’ve got reasonable confidence that Apple know what they’re doing with interfaces.

Exactly this!

The same people complaining that Apple is changing too much and making the iPhone 8 unintuitive would be complaining the loudest if they'd only release a 7S.

Change is not always bad and Apple has a really good track record for nailing OS interfaces and navigation so just wait until the 12th.

 

[psac]

No one takes photos at apple do they.

I was thinking the same thing. Longer power button = more accidental hits.

 

[WestonHarvey1]

I’m really going to struggle with this. For nine years I’ve used the home button to wake my phone, my power button is very rarely used. It’s going to be a hard habit to break.

I absolutely hate this about the Android phones without home buttons and I have never gotten used to it.

 

[dlewis23]

It could be swiping up and then going to the App switcher and tapping on that area goes back to home?

Nope. Swipe up partially and it starts to bring up the app switcher keep going and you go home. If this rumor is correct this is the easiest and probably best way to do it and I welcome it. I am not a fan of a virtual home button like on Android. They waste screen space.
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I’m really going to struggle with this. For nine years I’ve used the home button to wake my phone, my power button is very rarely used. It’s going to be a hard habit to break.

Its called raise to wake and with the facial recognition you don't have to touch any buttons to unlock your phone. How is that a hard habit to break?

 

[sparky08]

Seems like a lot of compromises went into this phone.

 

[dlewis23]

How to unlock without a home button? I wonder if a swipe to unlock gesture may work...

Raise to wake, then facial recognition. Half of it is already on the current iPhone.

 

[mpavilion]

The screen is reportedly flat like previous iPhones... around the phone which the glass curves into"

Ummmm

2.5D glass is not a curved screen

 

[x-evil-x]

I really don't see the point in any white colored fronts anymore then. They should make all colors for the full screen version black. Whats the colored part just the notch at the top? Make them all black.

 

[zorinlynx]

The home button defines the way we use the iPhone. Why does Apple want to change something that works so well?

I hope this phone is a flop and they go back to having a home button in short order. The entire philosophy of iOS revolves around having that button that ALWAYS takes you home.

 

[jacjustjac]

Seems Apple is taking a big risk here. The above description sounds at least a lot more complicated than the Home button. Ease of use is why the iPhone became so popular. Start adding in new gestures and asking people to relearn how to use the iPhone and it could start making people hate their phone. I think about all the non-tech people in my life and can imagine the conversations I'll have with them.

To be frank, the “swipe photo/card up to dismiss” is now a pretty common gesture in many apps, I can see it being extended to apps themselves. Although it’s a little weird that in the photos app, you’d swipe down to dismiss the photo, up to see more, and up from the bottom of the screen to close the app.

 

[zorinlynx]

We whinge and moan on a semi-regular basis that Apple doesn’t do enough to push iPhone forward. Then we whinge and moan when they change too much. To hell with it, you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs and all that. I think we’re long overdue a major redesign to completely modernise iPhone and iOS and I’ve got reasonable confidence that Apple know what they’re doing with interfaces.

This is true, but what I'm reading here is the equivalent of changing a car's steering wheel, which works perfectly for the intended job, to two buttons labelled "left" and "right" that you have to hold down for different amounts of time.

When something works very well, as the home button does, there's no need to change it.

EDIT: I should also add that there's no NEED for this change. Nobody is complaining that the home button doesn't work well. In fact the home button + TouchID is one of Apple's greatest innovations.

 

[az431]

That's not going to work too well when the notch is white, is it?

???

 

[DavidLeblond]

I’m so excited about this, but worried at the same time. Who else can never get Control Center to come up reliably? The phone often seems to confuse it with button input or accidental touches. I have to drag my finger quite high up and slowly/deliberately. I don’t want to have to do that every time I close an app.

Opening the control center when there is a keyboard showing is pretty much impossible. I don't think I've ever gotten it to work.

 

[az431]

This is true, but what I'm reading here is the equivalent of changing a car's steering wheel, which works perfectly for the intended job, to two buttons labelled "left" and "right" that you have to hold down for different amounts of time.

When something works very well, as the home button does, there's no need to change it.

EDIT: I should also add that there's no NEED for this change. Nobody is complaining that the home button doesn't work well. In fact the home button + TouchID is one of Apple's greatest innovations.

Pulling a carriage with a horse worked well too. No need for changing to cars.

 

[TheShadowKnows!]

1. No HOME button -- neither physical nor virtual
2. No TouchID
3. Significantly different behaviors -- new "core" gestures
4. Longterm UI disruption -- until achieving convergence

Pop-corn time!

 

[mistafro]

I’m really going to struggle with this. For nine years I’ve used the home button to wake my phone, my power button is very rarely used. It’s going to be a hard habit to break.

Raise to wake??

 

[Fidicinal]

Did anyone use WebOS? I loved it. Much more natural multitasking than anything from Android or Apple, IMO. This might get me to finally switch back to iOS.

 

[ConnYoungy]

That's almost a deal-breaker for me. Don't think I'll be able to ignore it when using the phone and it also sticks out like a sore thumb when the screen is off on the silver variant.

Or they'll all have all black screens...

 

[rpe33]

Interesting. I'm curious to see how all this works, if true.

 

[tkukoc]

Funny, they could have just made this available to everyone via IOS 11.. not really seeing how this is a "major" feature of the new phone. They always need their gimmick to sell it though.

 

[Scottsoapbox]

Sorry all games with swiping! - Apple.

 

[JM]

How were going to look navigating the iPhone 8.

Does he know Naruto?
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Pulling a carriage with a horse worked well too. No need for changing to cars.

Well said. Horses are superior beasts.

 

[MrLoL]

Except that it could mean blends color-wise, which is how you are interpreting or it could mean there is no gap between the last column of pixels and the bezel. So it doesn't confirm anything, just reconfirms existing rumors regarding edge-to-edge pixels.

That quote pretty much says it all about the color of the bezels:

Bloomberg also claims that when the display shows black, the superior color reproduction of the OLED screen ensures that it "blends in perfectly" with the notch and thin edges on the front.

We've seen that "blend-in" illusion with the Apple Watch, and it would totally make sense from Apple to do the same on the future iPhones.

 

[GadgetBen]

Announce the damn event already Apple!

We need the new iPhone before North Korea kick off again