With reachability ... can you do the swipe down, and then swipe down from the middle-right of the screen to get the control center? Or do you still have to pull control center down from the very top-right of the X?
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iPhone X Supports Reachability With Swipe Down Gesture on Home Screen Indicator Once Enabled
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Unfortunately for some, I don't think Apple have any intention of releasing a larger X next year. Unless they're aware of massive demand. I think they really will push the X as being the perfect size and won't bother with a larger one. I think a lot of people round these parts convince themselves they need a bigger device, when actually they probably don't - and this is coming from a guy with larger than average hands.
They said 4'' was the perfect size for everyone and they came up with 4.7 and 5.5 after a couple of years so never say never.
I can see why they didn't launch two X models, but if the market will ask for a bigger version of X they'll release it sooner or later. A bezel free version of SE would be good too.
In my opinion the aspect ratio of the 5.5 is the best one, you get a good width for apps and landscape mode is great. X is too tall, you can have a lot of stuff vertically like a list of messages and emails, but once you need to look at a single item, say a picture, you have too much margins. I can notice them on my plus, they are even worse on the X.
Simple doesn't necessarily mean intuitive. The action of swiping down on the home screen indicator reflects the downward motion of reachability. Double tapping the home button doesn't have that same connection. Also, double tapping the home button is unknown to many people because single tapping doesn't do anything. Swiping up on the home screen indicator is already used, so swiping down is more likely to be discovered by a user on their own. Of course, the new reachability isn't enabled by default, so I guess users won't even get a chance to discover it on their own.
That's what I like about Apple. They always have some unique way of making a feature or capability accessible in ways we would not have thought of. You have to give credit to their software engineers.
Probably because Apple doesn't want you to do this at all. Far too many people still think they need to close all their apps...Apple wants to move them away from it.
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I think you're confusing "intuitive" with "simple." It is simple to double tap Touch ID, but the double-tap action has no logical connection to Reachability. Swiping down on the indicator brings the screen down; thus it is both simple and intuitive.
Something intuitive should be simple, but something simple isn't necessarily intuitive. Much like all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.
Imagine a feature on the phone where if you blow into the microphone, it switches wifi on/off. Simple? Yes. Intuitive? Nooooooo.
I feel like you are conflating intuitive and easy.
Intuitive:using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive.
One would not reasonably expect that double tapping on home button would slide the screen down without prior knowledge. Double tapping on the home button isn’t intuitive at all. We just learned the relatively easy function and became accustomed to it.
Swiping down on a screen and having the screen pull down is intuitive and is much more likely to be recognized without prior knowledge.
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Thanks for helping explain with a very good example.
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So I just got my X today, and there’s no Reachability option in Settings. I looked under General>Accesibility, and I also did a search. Nothing. BUT...
The phone comes with 11.0.1 installed. Upgrade to 11.1, and Reachability is right there in General>Accesibility
The phone comes with 11.0.1 installed. Upgrade to 11.1, and Reachability is right there in General>Accesibility
Sounds simple and intuitive, but I tried this out at an Apple store and found it surprisingly difficult to get it to work.