You can actually use guided touch and it will temporarily remove the home button while in apps
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iPhone X iPhone X - Remove Home Bar?
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Wont that just put a small round "home" button on the screen instead (albeit moveable)?
What homebar?
I guess I'm lucky that I barely notice it...
Try using the Kindle app on dark mode! You'll notice it then unfortunately.
Don't use kindle on my phone fortunately. Sounds like Amazon needs to update its app...
It’s interesting how these complaints are typically regarding third party apps.
Still Apple’s fault though of course.
Yup, on these forums it’s always apples faultIt’s interesting how these complaints are typically regarding third party apps.
Still Apple’s fault though of course.
You can. Please see the solution I posted in this thread, #9:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/home-indicator-bar-and-gaming-on-iphone-x.2092070/
And that, right there, is precisely why the bar is there, confirming why Apple needs to keep it. Because it is not just the home gesture position that moves but also the gestures for control Center and notifications. And while it may make sense for you to leave them in one position, other users may not find this logical. It certainly would go against the design paradigm of iOS since iOS 7 and be inconsistent with every other Apple device. Therefore, the home bar has to remain to remind everyone how the gestures are oriented to avoid confusion and frustration.
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They don’t. But it’s more to do with the switch between landscape and portrait mode than anything else. With the home button it was always clear where to press to go home, even when in landscape. The question for a casual user is: do I swipe from the bottom of the long side in landscape or do I swipe from the “normal” bottom, which is on the side of the device in landscape? And what happens in Apps that rotate differently in landscape? And where do the notification and control Center menus fit into this confusion? The bar provides orientation for these situations and there is no guessing. It’s like a compass pointing north.
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@axiomus Thanks for that. Now I don't have to see the home bar anymore when reading my Kindle eBooks in dark mode anymore!
Jesus. The swipe bar has been driving me nuts for one year, and I was really hoping they would add a feature to disable it in iOS 12. Alas there is nothing I utterly hate it. Why Apple????
At least be glad that they didn't ADD the swipe bar to the iPad with iOS 12...
People haven’t at least noticed that they moved it down? I don’t even notice it at all anymore tbh.
For me, because the home bar is bright and distracting, especially now that we have dark mode, whereas the notch fades into the background. The bar is 10 times more annoying for me.
I’m worried about it causing burn-in more then anything.
Just give us an option in the settings to get rid of it entirely. It’s completely unnecessary to those of us accustomed to the new design.
Just give us an option in the settings to get rid of it entirely. It’s completely unnecessary to those of us accustomed to the new design.
Recently started using an app on my iPad Pro that has content overlapped by the home bar as well, presumably same thing with the iPhone variant of the app. So there's another downside to it