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iOS 11 Dock and Gesture Controls to Replace 'iPhone 8' Home Button Entirely
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This is exactly the problem that many people have with Force Touch. It's a "gesture", so there's no clear-cut of knowing when and where it can be used. It's a matter of trial-and error. For something as important as a home button, replacing it with a gesture seems user-hostile and counter-intuitive.
I think I've seen other phones do the power button and a volume button to take a screenshot.
That being said I want to keep the home button, just answering your question
I wouldn't be so sure https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/9to5mac.com/2017/08/24/apple-pencil-iphone/amp/
It may not support it this's year but it's possible in the future, Tim Cook has even dropped a hint about it.
As for multitasking, yea that may be but personally I'd like to see 2 apps open similar to the iPad.
Sounds a lot like BlackBerry 10's interface to me. No home button, gesture based, swipe up from the bottom to unlock and to exit an app/go home/multitask.
The user absolutely needs to know when DND is activated just by glancing at the phone (or risks missing alerts). Same with alarm icon. Bluetooth icon also pretty critical. I'm not seeing how they can stand to lose much from the status bar as it now stands.
You just have to drag past the bottom row of the keyboard.
You have to drag that far anyway to bring up the controls -- whether the keyboard is there or not -- so this isn't a special case gesture.
The disconcerting part is that the keyboard UI reacts visually as you drag over the bottom of the keyboard. While it doesn't actually do anything unless you stop dragging while still on the bottom row and release, the UI changes make you feel like you've done the wrong thing (though you haven't... yet... and the natural reaction to that is to stop and release -- so now you have done the wrong thing.
I get what they are after here. On one hand, they don't want to ignore taps that are intended to activate something on the bottom row of the keyboard just because the tap starts slightly below the bottom row of the keyboard. Yet a swipe up to activate the controls might also start slightly below the bottom row of the keyboard. They are trying to have it both ways by letting both the keyboard UI change in case that's what you want to do but deferring deciding what to actually do depending on how far you drag.
But it doesn't always work well since activating the keyboard UI can interrupt your drag.
I think they will just need to tighten things up. Maybe just get a little more picky about activating the UI on the keyboard so that it isn't activated if your tap starts below the bottom of the keyboard. Really, they are going to *have* to do something anyway because the bezel below the screen is so much smaller.... maybe swipes from the edge will have to start on the rounded area? Maybe the keyboard will be inset from the bottom of the screen to give you room to start an edge swipe. I'm not sure.
Anyway, something is going to have to change, so hopefully you'll find your current issue with it resolved.
Still a rumor at this point. However, if all of them are true I am sure I am not interested in the iPhone 8 at all. Sounds more of a pain just to use for a little more screen. I really am not interested in the gesture gymnastics just to do what the fingerprint ID and home button did.
With iPhone 7's raise to wake I never ever touch the power button. I'm so glad theyre finally removing the home button!
Hope not. Only used the iOS 11 beta on an iPad for a few hours but wasn't particularly impressed. The first thing I do with an iOS device is disable control centre within apps. Nothing worse than having it dragged up when scrolling the dock does exactly the same thing!
Will be very interesting, ready to pull the trigger when Google announces the Pixel 2. Might even use the Pixel full time if Apple messes this up.
I want a full-screen device but also a Home button and cameras and earpiece. I also want Touch ID in the front. I also want them to spec the phone to my standards. I once designed a bake sale flyer so you can say that I have an eye for design.
Too bad Apple doesn't know innovation anymore. They need to figure out a way to have a full-screen device with a Home button with Touch ID and cameras and earpiece.
Also, no camera protrusion. Great design is making it look cool. Just figure it out. That's what I would do differently from Tim Cook. I'd knock heads around until I got what I wanted.
Too bad Apple doesn't know innovation anymore. They need to figure out a way to have a full-screen device with a Home button with Touch ID and cameras and earpiece.
Also, no camera protrusion. Great design is making it look cool. Just figure it out. That's what I would do differently from Tim Cook. I'd knock heads around until I got what I wanted.
It actually works super well on the iPad and iOS 11! Im sure it will be a smooth transition on the iPhone as well.
Wonder why they kept the home button on iPad all these years!
I spent some time looking at the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 the other day and was not impressed - specifically because of the glare the curved edges induce. I could hardly hold the device where I wasn't constantly seeing reflections from overhead lights and there was just zero use for having anything on-screen bleed over the curved edge.
I think they'd be better off trying to create a flat screen with no frame, if they feel that they just have to do the frameless look in the first place. The curved edge serves no good purpose.
I think they'd be better off trying to create a flat screen with no frame, if they feel that they just have to do the frameless look in the first place. The curved edge serves no good purpose.
I don't know about this. Android ROMs have had this optional feature for a while where you can keep the navigation bar hidden at all times and it's activated with a swipe and at least for me while it initially looks useful to have all the display available for content the while swiping thing gets old pretty fast...