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iPhone 6 to Support 'One-Handed Mode' to Address Usability on Larger Screens

Lol. This is so much fail and acknowledgement of the reality of our physical forms.

I am not sure what I do on a phone where I do not need one handed mode? It's my phone. I make calls, check emails, etc. my question is when do I need big phone 2 handed mode?
 
Whoa! First the rumor about a U2 song/video being preloaded on the iPhone 6, now a rumor about a one-handed mode? Uh, am I on SammyRumors.com???
 
In iOS 7 they introduced the swipe to left gesture to go back to previous view controller. Its purpose is to avoid tapping on the back button, that can be hard on a very large screen with only one hand.
On the springboard you can swipe down to open the search field, again this can be easily done with one hand.
I'm skeptical about a new one-handed mode, they cannot interfere with app's gestures without notifying the developers.
 
recoil80 said:
In iOS 7 they introduced the swipe to left gesture to go back to previous view controller. Its purpose is to avoid tapping on the back button, that can be hard on a very large screen with only one hand.
On the springboard you can swipe down to open the search field, again this can be easily done with one hand.
I'm skeptical about a new one-handed mode, they cannot interfere with app's gestures without notifying the developers.
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you'd be surprised how many people i know that didnt even know about the swipe to left gesture on their iPhone 5/S for over a year until i showed them :eek: they will be overwhelmed by one hand mode surely. people are stupid
 
BruiserB said:
I'd guess the keyboard can be shrunk and positioned to lower right or left corner depending on if you are right or left handed. Maybe some of the other on screen controls are kept within thumb's reach and then move away when you're not typing.
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That's what I'd imagine too. It may be possible for the telephone to automatically detect whether it is being held in the right or left hand using the existing sensors. For example, if the telephone is held in the right hand, one might expect the left edge to move generally more than the right. Alternatively, the touch screen could detect detect the presence of base of the thumb at the edge of the screen. The camera may also come into effect, using edge detection and object recognition in conjunction with the spatial position of the phone relative to the body. There are a multitude of ways this could be accomplished rather than a generic L or R hand setting (though this could conceivably be changed on the fly with a swipe gesture or other UI element.)
 
I suppose maybe a double-tap of the side wakeup button could shrink the display to the classic iphone 5 size and right/left justify it at the bottom (based on a left/right pref).
 
Give it a rest, jeez, all it is is shifting the keyboard over if you need to use the phone with one hand.

Quit pretending that larger screens aren't useful just because one unified keyboard layout won't work under some circumstances.

I didnt see anyone complaining when iPad introduced split keyboard mode!
 
rorschach said:
When you need junk like this, the phone is too big!
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Nice to see someone sticking to their opinion about over-sized phones, not bashing Android manufacturers then praising Apple when they do the same.

I know both Sony and Samsung already have a feature like this and maybe others do too.
 
One of the things I really like about my Note 3 is being able to comfortably type with both hands. It speeds things up tremendously.
 
kdarling said:
Another possibility is that Apple will enable trackpad mode on the fingerprint sensor, and somehow use that to select far away items.
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That sounds like an amazing idea! I really do hope they do this and it's included in the 4.7" model too since I'm going for that.
 
Hopefully it works instead of being more of a gimmick like other phones have... Not naming names Samsung.
 
nagromme said:
I can't think of any way that's not an awkward and terrible idea. Samsung can't either! Special "modes"? Awkward complexity.

I hope this is false, or is something other than it sounds like. Apple can think of things neither Samsung or I can, after all.
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Or you know, you could not use it if you don't like the way it works.

mpavilion said:
That's not even a real screenshot; looks like some render.
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Even if that is a render it doesn't matter because that's how it works. Go check in a store or on a friends Note or something.
 
timshundo said:
One thing is for sure; it's not gonna work like this:

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LOL. That's basically admitting that bigger screens aren't useful so here's a compromised mode for when actually need to use your phone when not bragging about how big it is.
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That just seems like a joke. If Samsung actually implemented something like this, they should be ashamed. Apple would see this and realize how foolish it looks. Clearly they will have a better implementation. Same reason they waited so log to do cut an paste. They wanted it to be right, not just be the first out of the gate and be a laughing stock.
 
jimbobb24 said:
Lol. This is so much fail and acknowledgement of the reality of our physical forms.

I am not sure what I do on a phone where I do not need one handed mode? It's my phone. I make calls, check emails, etc. my question is when do I need big phone 2 handed mode?
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When you play games, watch videos, read anything, edit docs? You know, 95% of what people do with their devices.
 
kdarling said:
At least some of it will be.

As reference, here's a video detailing Samsung's one-handed helpers:

YouTube: video

Another possibility is that Apple will enable trackpad mode on the fingerprint sensor, and somehow use that to select far away items.
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That video pretty much sums up why I don't want a Samsung phone. That laggy, confusing UI with thousands of incoherent little settings and fancy little things going on. You can tell that the software just sort of build up over the course of years.

I hope Apple will continue to offer a 4 inch phone that is actually designed for one handed use. I really got used to it, and honestly I probably use my iPhone with one hand in 98% of all cases. Let's see how it feels in the hands.
 
griz said:
That just seems like a joke. If Samsung actually implemented something like this, they should be ashamed. Apple would see this and realize how foolish it looks. Clearly they will have a better implementation. Same reason they waited so log to do cut an paste. They wanted it to be right, not just be the first out of the gate and be a laughing stock.
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I'm curious to see what you believe is the major difference between how Apple and Google handle copying/pasting? For both you highlight the text and select an option.
 
If this works well maybe we'll have less "the screen is too big" crybabies on this forum. ;)
 
timshundo said:
One thing is for sure; it's not gonna work like this:

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LOL. That's basically admitting that bigger screens aren't useful so here's a compromised mode for when actually need to use your phone when not bragging about how big it is.
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Not all of us have hands the size of a 4 year old. The 4" screen is way too small, and the older 3.5" is way, way too small. I can hardly type on the tiny little thing. I thought 3.5" was fine until I tried a 4.7" HTC One and realized how wrong I was. No way is 5.5" way too big. Too big for some people, sure, but way too big? Not for any average adult.
 
jimbobb24 said:
I am not sure what I do on a phone where I do not need one handed mode?
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You constantly masturbate while holding your phone? Because that's the only "one handed" scenario that I can think of... :-/
 
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