iPhone 8 Virtual Home Button Can Likely Resize and Hide Completely As Needed

[Bacillus]

Apparently they filled, because force touch is not scalable for iPad

Considering that apple often shares its technology between its products (eg Force Touch on the watch, becoming 3D touch on the iPhone) has anyone considered that the dock may be the same as the Touch Bar on the MBPs?

Apparently they failed, because force touch is not scalable for iPad
Where it comes to transferring the Dock to the phone, I seriously doubt they'll do it because of the lack of screen real estate.
If you consider the TouchBar to be a dynamic Dock, that might happen, but it will take a few new iOS revisions.
But I doubt they'll do that because on the Mac TouchBar and Dock are very different animals

 

[Kid Red]

So the status bar mock up leaves off BT, Location Services, WIFI signal, time, etc,. LOL, either I'm over-expecting of Apple, or some people just don't think things through.

 

[jimbo1mcm]

The home button on my S8 goes away and when I want it I scroll up a little from the bottom and there it is!! Not invented by Apple.

 

[Neepman]

Constantly changing, inconsistent and confusing interface. That's pretty much business as usual since iOS 7.

 

[applemumba]

Dark mode will be standard

 

[lostngone]

It'd be nice if they ditched the signal indicator (because they're required to show the carrier name) in favor of a clock. Maybe the signal strength could fade in periodically along with batter percentage:

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I really like the idea of the clock. Are they really required to show the carrier?
I really would like to keep the signal strength and 4g/LTE indicator. That is until AT&T or Apple fixes the issue of defaulting to 4g(where/when LTE isn't available) but never switching back to LTE again without switching on/off airplane mode or turning cellular data off/on.

 

[The Game 161]

Thank you homepod

 

[ackmondual]

With a virtual home button, I wonder what the sequence of buttons will be for a "hard reboot" and screen shot...

As someone who's in a similar boat... about a year back I upgraded from a Samsung Galaxy s4, to an LG G4. The former had a physical home button on the bottom, whereas the latter removes the physical home button in favor of "Home Touch buttons" (the phone still has a bottom bezel though). It's a virtual row of buttons that used to be hard physical or capacitive buttons on the bottom of "traditional" Android smartphones.

For screenshots, I have 2 options:
a) Press the Volume down and power buttons simultaneously. This is actually EASIER to do here since they're practically next to each other (I can just fat finger it with my index finger), whereas on the gs4, the power button's on the right spine, where the home button is on the bottom of the front face
*Worth noting is this may be carrier dependent. I'm on T-Mobile
b) There's a Quick Memo feature that comes with the phone. I can tap on that on the Home Touch button row to take a screenshot

For hard reboot, it's a combination of hard buttons on the back (power button and volume up IIRC?).
Oh, here it is...
https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-28969
Press and hold the Volume Down button and the Power button. When the LG logo is displayed release the Power button only then immediately press and hold the Power button again. Release both buttons when the Factory data reset screen displays. From the Factory data reset screen, select Yes.

Well, one's T-Mobile, the other is instructions for Verizon, but you get the picture.

 

[ackmondual]

If they consider the fact an on screen button can be made to disappear then it should be called 'desperate Mac Rumors'!

It's hardly front page stop the press news and I'm pretty most people would of suspected they'd copy Androids solution, I don't know anyone following the rumours so far that didn't presume the bottom area would disappear when playing videos etc.

Still worthy "news" IMO b/c:
1) When I switched from a Samsung Galaxy s4 to an LG G4 (this one has virtual home button), I was a bit concerned how I'd get used to that, not having tactile physical home button, being able to "feel my way around", etc. It's been around a year on my LG G4, I while I will say I sort of still miss a physical home button, the overall improvements of the LG G4 were well worth it.

Actually, I had identical concerns when I switched from a flip phone (Nokia 6133) to my first smartphone (Samsung galaxy s2) where the keypad is all virtual. I also miss having physical keys, but the tradeoff of having a larger screen made it worth it.

2) As all iPhones have had physical home buttons, this is quite a shift in paradigm for that product line!
For those who never knew considered a phone with a lack of physical home button, I'm sure they'd like to know too. Also, while Android has phones that already delve there, those iOS users may not bother looking much into them.