iPhone 12 Pro Landscape mode on the 12 Pro Max is horrendous

[Ds6778]

Landscape mode in stock apps on the 12 Pro Max is just awful from a UI/UX standpoint....
There is an insane amount of padding making the extra screen effectively useless. There’s a ton uneven design elements and just an incongruous vibe to it. I get that it’ll probably (maybe?) get updated, but they’re charging full price for sloppy software. I can’t imagine anyone looking at this and thinking “this looks well designed/implemented.”
Seems like they made the screen bigger and just threw the 6.5” screen on top. Even the 6.5” suffers from the same lack of attention, it’s just more noticeable on the 6.7” screen. I wish they would actually use this massive canvas and make “Max” specific OS features. I wouldn’t be mad if they took some inspiration from iPadOS ...just saying......Anyway, I am enjoying this device and look forward to spending the next 10 months/ year with it. Hope you guys are enjoying yours.

 

[DeanL]

It is quite ridiculous.

 

[NotApplicable]

The space on the left of most of those looks to be where the notch is?

 

[Mr.Blacky]

Why don't you show how it's done right? I would be very interested in how you would design the UI.

 

[AndrewR23]

Nvm lol

 

[Puonti]

The Contacts one looks weird indeed, the rest of them simply follow iOS interface guidelines where foreground content on both sides of the screen must allow for the notch (which could be on either side depending on device orientation).

 

[EM2013]

iOS should be optimized for each screen but no they opt for lazy design, which leaves so much wasted space.

 

[Macintosh101]

iOS should be optimized for each screen but no they opt for lazy design, which leaves so much wasted space.

Agreed. In the “Display Zoom” settings they should offer three choices for the Pro Max:

- Zoomed
- Standard
- More content

 

[Tsepz]

Landscape mode in stock apps on the 12 Pro Max is just awful from a UI/UX standpoint....
There is an insane amount of padding making the extra screen effectively useless. There’s a ton uneven design elements and just an incongruous vibe to it. I get that it’ll probably (maybe?) get updated, but they’re charging full price for sloppy software. I can’t imagine anyone looking at this and thinking “this looks well designed/implemented.”
Seems like they made the screen bigger and just threw the 6.5” screen on top. Even the 6.5” suffers from the same lack of attention, it’s just more noticeable on the 6.7” screen. I wish they would actually use this massive canvas and make “Max” specific OS features. I wouldn’t be mad if they took some inspiration from iPadOS ...just saying......Anyway, I am enjoying this device and look forward to spending the next 10 months/ year with it. Hope you guys are enjoying yours. View attachment 1665839View attachment 1665841View attachment 1665842View attachment 1665843

Lol, yeah it’s been like this since the Xs Max but as you said it’s more noticeable on a larger screen.

It’s such a pity they are not truly Maximizing the extra screen real estate on the Max phones.

It would be great if they did take some inspiration from iPad OS and maybe even gave us Multiwindow multitasking and not just PiP.

There is a lot of wasted space. I wish Apple would allow us to do more in terms of Display Zoom and allowing us to add more Rows and Columns in the Homescreen, the Homescreen dock should not be limited to just 4 things, on the Max it should fit 5 (Xs Max and 11 Pro Max) or 6 (12 Pro Max) things down there. It seems iOS has issues with scaling? Who knows.

Still love my 11 Pro Max, but completely agree with you, they need to do more on these Max phones as the screen real estate is there!

Agreed. In the “Display Zoom” settings they should offer three choices for the Pro Max:

- Zoomed
- Standard
- More content

Exactly! Absolutely agreed!

 

[EM2013]

Lol, yeah it’s been like this since the Xs Max but as you said it’s more noticeable on a larger screen.

It’s such a pity they are not truly Maximizing the extra screen real estate on the Max phones.

It would be great if they did take some inspiration from iPad OS and maybe even gave us Multiwindow multitasking and not just PiP.

There is a lot of wasted space. I wish Apple would allow us to do more in terms of Display Zoom and allowing us to add more Rows and Columns in the Homescreen, the Homescreen dock should not be limited to just 4 things, on the Max it should fit 5 (Xs Max and 11 Pro Max) or 6 (12 Pro Max) things down there. It seems iOS has issues with scaling? Who knows.

Still love my 11 Pro Max, but completely agree with you, they need to do more on these Max phones as the screen real estate is there!



Exactly! Absolutely agreed!

Just look at that Grand Canyon of a space between the last row & the dock 🤮

You can easily fit another row & another app on the dock.

 

[Tsepz]

Just look at that Grand Canyon of a space between the last row & the dock

You can easily fit another row & another app on the dock.

It is absolutely comical!
I don’t have any other Homescreens so mine is completely empty.