If you turn it upside down and let it orient itself, does the notch fit perfectly in that gap?
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iPhone X Owners Complain About Keyboard's 'Wasted Space'
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Clearly, none of the complainants actually demoed the device or they'd have been upset earlier than now.
As others have commented you could as a stopgap, enable intelligent invert colors which works pretty well
One of my few complaints as well. Definitely can see the potential for it to be utilized in a future iOS update.
I'm talking the "real dark mode." Wait....are you talking about like os x dark mode?
And it's still not gone from many areas of the OS. The inconsistency is annoying.
No the accessibility item that inverts the colors, for instance this page will be mostly black with white text. Problem is, pictures will be negative, which is kind of annoying / distracting.
That mock-up with the emojis crammed down there would be a nightmare to use. With it being so close to the home bar, swiping through emojis would constantly swipe to the next app instead.
If the guy who did that mock-up was truely a UI/UX designer, he would know that.
If the guy who did that mock-up was truely a UI/UX designer, he would know that.
Yeah, that Buzzfeed reviewer totally didn't have 7 days with the device before they wrote their article, nor did it publish last week on 31 Oct 2017. /s
*Looks at Reddit thread from article.*
Posted two days ago. Yeah, if only they had complained before now too.
[doublepost=1509988628][/doublepost]Gruber mentioned in his review roundup that some birdie (i.e. Apple) told him that he was correct and the gap is for typing comfort.
https://daringfireball.net/2017/10/iphone_x_review_roundup
John Gruber said:
The Shape of Things to come needs symmetry.
So: a software notch
Only Apple can do it - then it will be functional, unobtrusive.
This has to be the reason, but then you could say the same about the smart suggestions at the top of the keyboard.
There must be a good reason they did not implement this like a touch bar because it does feel like they dropped the ball.
I'm hoping Apple actually makes an iPhone 9 so there will be a model that retains the Top/Bottom bezels so they can adopt FaceID but also keep TouchID. You could even implement the new gestures into the touch capacitive Home Button (swipe L/R App switching, swipe U/D for Notifications and CP).
I think anyone complaining about the keyboard placement has not actually used an iPhone X in person. Any lower and the phone would be falling out of your hands. If anything, I feel like the keyboard should be even higher; it feels very top-heavy when typing with two hands.
If you're excited about ios 12 or 13..... That speaks of the quality of the current iPhone or iOS....
I'm really looking forward for the iPhone's in 2018; I hope they have a iPhone X "plus"
Well let that be the dumbest thing you have heard. Im not using it to unlock my phone brains.
I am using it to open apps like Spark, banking app, safari, when they require FaceID it doesn't work in landscape.
Didn't the person that shot the video you're referencing say they had their camera set up incorrectly and that the screen doesn't look like that?
I personally have an X and haven't seen anything close to what you have in your profile picture.
These places are already trying to figure out what more Apple could do with this space, meanwhile I'm wondering why I don't have a settings option that reduces it significantly.
It's like the giant headers at the top of Apple apps. I love what Messages looks like when the big "MESSAGES" header with search bar starts off hidden.
As if the list of my texts wasn't the indicator of which app I was in.
It's like the giant headers at the top of Apple apps. I love what Messages looks like when the big "MESSAGES" header with search bar starts off hidden.
As if the list of my texts wasn't the indicator of which app I was in.
It honestly just looks like they don't have True Tone turned on in display settings. I just turned mine off to compare and the screen's white point shifted towards being more blue than usual. Turned it back on and the problem was fixed.