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iPhone X Owners Complain About Keyboard's 'Wasted Space'
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This isn’t Android.
But yeah, I could see them making changes but then again, I’d be annoy d if they put emojis or whatever down there and it caused accidental hits when trying to home.
Try swiping up to use control center while the keyboard is up on a non-iPhone X. Then realize that swiping up replaces the home button on iPhone X.
“Let’s start whining like girls”??? Get the FO with that bull$&i7!! Seriously!!!!
People will find something to complain about. Maybe they’ll change it in a software update, but I’m glad the keyboard isn’t lower. It’d hurt to type.
I really dislike the way you now remove apps , feels like a hack
Welcome to the reality of using an "innovative" phone with an OS that lacks real innovation.
This is Apple's biggest OS design problem, every time they come out with a new screen size, or in this case a screen with extra room, the OS and API's suffer from a fragmented platform that tries to support the lowest common denominator and full of compromises for the larger screens and features of these screens.
So of course the problems you are going to have with iPhone X is that a lot of interfaces are going to be optimized for the "standard" iPhone screens and have poor UX for X.
Apple's API's and UI should "flow" and be more fluent to fill space and utilize screen size rather then using some static pre-defined size and positions that are not adaptable to changes in the hardware. Instead you end up with simulated region where the hardware home button usually appears and the use of the virtual area exposed by the thin bezel design that lacks any imagination. I still have an app on my iPad today that is sized for an iPhone, I mean come on, 11 versions of iOS later and they can't figure out how to scale the UI properly without using black bars around it?
Its also dissapointing that Apple themselves didn't figure out how to make their own UI and apps utilize the extra space on iPhone X properly, I mean come out with a phone that is supposed to be the "future" of phones, and then release it with an OS that is full of uninspired design choices.
Apple's OS team is years behind the hardware team, and it is dissapointing that a company that makes both hardware and software can't coordinate their releases better.
This is Apple's biggest OS design problem, every time they come out with a new screen size, or in this case a screen with extra room, the OS and API's suffer from a fragmented platform that tries to support the lowest common denominator and full of compromises for the larger screens and features of these screens.
So of course the problems you are going to have with iPhone X is that a lot of interfaces are going to be optimized for the "standard" iPhone screens and have poor UX for X.
Apple's API's and UI should "flow" and be more fluent to fill space and utilize screen size rather then using some static pre-defined size and positions that are not adaptable to changes in the hardware. Instead you end up with simulated region where the hardware home button usually appears and the use of the virtual area exposed by the thin bezel design that lacks any imagination. I still have an app on my iPad today that is sized for an iPhone, I mean come on, 11 versions of iOS later and they can't figure out how to scale the UI properly without using black bars around it?
Its also dissapointing that Apple themselves didn't figure out how to make their own UI and apps utilize the extra space on iPhone X properly, I mean come out with a phone that is supposed to be the "future" of phones, and then release it with an OS that is full of uninspired design choices.
Apple's OS team is years behind the hardware team, and it is dissapointing that a company that makes both hardware and software can't coordinate their releases better.
All you dingus's complaining about something that clearly has been tested to be ergonomically correct. The space is there so the keyboard sits at the correct height for you to use without straining your fingers any more than necessary. There is also space provided so you don't accidentally / inadvertently trigger another action while swiping up to go home.
As a UI designer I absolutely hate the mentality of that you need to cram more **** into every open space, and as much as there is inconsistency abound within iOS 11, I am more than pleased with the keyboard treatment on the X so far.
As a UI designer I absolutely hate the mentality of that you need to cram more **** into every open space, and as much as there is inconsistency abound within iOS 11, I am more than pleased with the keyboard treatment on the X so far.
It's a boon for reachability which requires a swipe down on the home bar. As opposed to the home screen where to get it to work at all you have to swipe down between two dock icons.
Sorry, I adopted the new design language:
The Shape of Things to come requires symmetry. So: a software notch.
Only Apple can do it - then it will be functional, unobtrusive.
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Thats because it basically is that. This is the first iPhone without home button. They wont completely change the entire way you use the device all at once, that would be a complete turn-off.
Complaining about something, not surprised... people always focus on flaws, I’m still waiting for mine so if you want to complain, give me yours...
As early adopters began to experience the iPhone X for the first time this past weekend, many users took to the MacRumors forums, Reddit, and Twitter to discuss the gap that exists below the keyboard within iOS 11 on iPhone X. As some users pointed out, this space was likely meant as a way to more easily swipe up to go Home, and potentially for ergonomics reasons since a lower keyboard could be more difficult to type on, but many iPhone X owners are still getting used to the way the keyboard looks across all apps on the device.
The iOS keyboard on iPhone X
On the new keyboard, the Globe or Emoji icon and the Dictation icon both sit below the space bar at the very bottom of the screen. Between these two buttons is a wide, empty gray area that isn't sitting well with some iPhone X owners, and which some early reviews of the device pointed out last week.
BuzzFeed, for example, wondered why Apple didn't do more with this space, potentially including adding "common punctuation, frequently used emojis, or literally anything."
Alex Muench, a UI/UX designer for apps like Todoist and Twist, went a step further and created a mockup of how this could look on future versions of iOS on the iPhone X. Muench likened this space on iPhone X to be a potential area for recently used emojis, "like Touch bar on Mac."
Twitter user @Yespur asked third-party keyboard SwiftKey if the company will "fill the bottom part of the screen," to which SwiftKey responded: "We'll have to look into it. Nothing to comment on beyond that." It's unclear whether third parties will have any ability to design for this area of iOS on iPhone X. In the Human Interface Guidelines for the new smartphone, the only direct mention of the keyboard asks developers to not duplicate the Globe and Dictation keys.
The iPhone X comes with a variety of new interface gestures, features, and interactions that take some time getting used to following years of the traditional iPhone experience. Without a Home Button, unlocking the iPhone X requires you to swipe up from the bottom edge of the device, and also rearranges some physical commands like taking a screenshot by pressing the Side Button and Volume Up Button. For more information on Apple's newest smartphone, check out our iPhone X Roundup.
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I have never seen someone go to open their phone in landscape mode lol. Seems like the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
I don't have mine yet, but I don't think there is a Home button sensor on the X. The HOME button was replaced with a gesture, AFAIK.
If you have orientation lock on then FaceID works just fine in landscape.
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When I am laying on the couch and want to use the phone then it will be in landscape. But, when orientation lock is on, FaceID works fine.
I'm sure iOS 12 will improve on all these things. Apple needs time to see how the wider public uses the iPhone X and what optimisations will make the UI better for this screen size. I imagine the testing they've done internally has been quite limited since they can't show people the phone they're not likely to use it in public and so it doesn't become their main device until after its unveiled at the keynote in September.
I wouldn't count on it. There were three .0X and one .X updates in TWO months alone without any critical fixes other than patches for the completely broken iOS 11 experience.