New swipe gesture to replace home button use!

[Renho]

If we have to swipe up from the bottom to the middle of the screen to get to the app switcher, or swipe all the way up to close the app and get back to home page. That is adding alot more effort for basic use of the phone then a simple press of a button. I mean alone it doesn't seem like that much, but put that on a full day scale of use perspective and alot more people are going to get caught at work on there phones then usual...lol I just wonder how much more time we are going to spend on our phones like now isn't enough already.???

Plus when you swipe with an app open, what are the chances you do it right the first time. Will the app respond to our swipe instead of the phone UI cause i have fat/skinny fingers. I dont know, i was really hoping for a virtual home button...

 

[eyoungren]

If we have to swipe up from the bottom to the middle of the screen to get to the app switcher, or swipe all the way up to close the app and get back to home page. That is adding alot more effort for basic use of the phone then a simple press of a button. I mean alone it doesn't seem like that much, but put that on a full day scale of use perspective and alot more people are going to get caught at work on there phones then usual...lol I just wonder how much more time we are going to spend on our phones like now isn't enough already.???

Plus when you swipe with an app open, what are the chances you do it right the first time. Will the app respond to our swipe instead of the phone UI cause i have fat/skinny fingers. I dont know, i was really hoping for a virtual home button...

???

Just how much more effort do you think this will take?

There is a reason Activator for jailbroken iDevices is one of the top installed Cydia tweaks.

Apple is just simply taking another page from jailbreak devs.

 

[Renho]

???

Just how much more effort do you think this will take?

There is a reason Activator for jailbroken iDevices is one of the top installed Cydia tweaks.

Apple is just simply taking another page from jailbreak devs.

Well let’s compare brining up control center with an app open. How many times do you think it comes up, for me 2/3rds of the time it does and the rest it doesn’t!

 

[ZEEN0j]

Just because control center works one way doesn't mean another swipe from bottom will work the same. Control center and especially doing it with the keyboard up is just bad code. If you now slide from the bottom to close an app I'm positive it will work every time.

 

[irontiger82]

I was thinking about this too. Only way to bring up a home is swipe from the bottom upwards.

 

[Ralfi]

It's an interesting (alleged) move.

I know when using Google Maps, swiping up intending to bring up Control Centre sometimes misses & brings up the Google Maps menu instead.

We'll see soon...

 

[onepoint]

It's an interesting (alleged) move.

I know when using Google Maps, swiping up intending to bring up Control Centre sometimes misses & brings up the Google Maps menu instead.

We'll see soon...

With earlier betas it was impossible to bring up Control Center in Waze while navigating; the Waze menu appeared each and every time. That’s no longer the case. Not sure whether iOS or Waze (or both) made the adjustment.

 

[user1408]

Man...first the headphone jack, then the touchid, then the home button and in the end a price of minimum $999. Thank you Apple. Those gestures are going to be ultra ****. I don't care what people say. We all got used to everything that made the iPhone what it is, and now they are going to screw it really bad.