Well you can never do everything for day 1.
I could boil eggs on the first MacBook Air. And the first iPhone didn’t even have 3G which was a joke.
Never buy a first gen product is often true, sadly.
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iPhone X No landscape homescreen on iPhone X
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I could boil eggs on the first MacBook Air. And the first iPhone didn’t even have 3G which was a joke.
Never buy a first gen product is often true, sadly.
Having used the X for 8 hours this compact view (no landscape) is a bummer for mail (no split view) and home screen. Grr.
Not quite. The X is using the 4.7" flavor of iOS, rather than the 5.5" Plus version.
It's been said a bazillion times, the X is not a replacement for the Plus, it's an evolution of the 4.7" iPhone.
There's a reason why so many Plus users like myself will be waiting for the X+ next year.
Couldn’t this be adjusted with an iOS update?? Surely we the people can protest to have this implemented just like we cried could to have 3D Touch app switcher returned.
It was never a feature intended outside the Plus and iPad. You didn’t lose anything.
The X is not a Plus replacement. Anyone who thinks that hasn’t been paying attention to the dozens of threads about this issue since the reveal.
Me too. I think many Plus users will be disappointed with the compromises they will have to make with the X.
All those people who didn’t understand that 5.8” isn’t really larger than 5.5” in practical use are about to get big dosage of painful geometry.
Nice to see another thread of bitter none X buyers.
I’ll have an X on my doorstep in a few hours...and it’s going to my wife.
There’s nothing to fix. The X is not a Plus therefore it does not run the Plus version of iOS.
Well then, that's so definitive that you've never done it. Alrighty then. /end_dripping_sarcasm
Yea, not having landscape mode for email and notes app is really a big productivity setback for those that are used to using it on the plus. I *CANNOT BELIEVE* not a single idiot reviewer bothered to mention this. This is enough of a feature for me to return the phone and go get an iPhone 8+.
Stunningly stupid move on Apple's part. And for the apologists in the group, please spare me. The screen is bigger than the Plus's and can totally accommodate this layout. Apple at least could make it an option, and it was not unreasonable for plus owners to think this would be supported considering the bigger screen on the X. Your feigned blasé responses not withstanding.
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Report it to Apple then:
https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
Phones are becoming more and more portrait devices, a good thing if you ask me. Just like my iPad is almost always in landscape mode, as it should be. Different devices for different types of content.
Completely agree with you. Landscape mode was useful in the car but I eventually kept my 7 plus in portrait because phone calls and the Apple Music app don’t work in landscape. Obviously I wasn’t calling people but when a call did come through it would be sideways which bugged me.
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Exactly what technarcy said. If you didn’t need the features then you won’t miss them. I had a plus but almost exclusively used it in portrait and I used it extensively for work and email. I just couldn’t type as fast in landscape.
I never found a use for landscape homescreen other than it got stuck in landscape sometimes until twisting it back and forth 1 or 2 times. I never found any true functional use for it (other than driving me nuts rotating back and forth)
The split screen apps, meh. I never used it honestly, it made the say mail message too small anyway to do anything with in landscape inbox. The display was too small to effectively use the landscape split screen apps even with the text size at the smallest setting. Landscape imessage never found a use for the recipient list on the left side to use it landscape.
The split screen apps, meh. I never used it honestly, it made the say mail message too small anyway to do anything with in landscape inbox. The display was too small to effectively use the landscape split screen apps even with the text size at the smallest setting. Landscape imessage never found a use for the recipient list on the left side to use it landscape.
No offense, but this is the ravings or a poorly researched consumer posting FUD.
The points of interface of the X are almost the same as the 4.7” iPhone. The display being “bigger” is not just a matter of diagonal size.
This is widely public info that Apple didn’t keep secret at all.
https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/overview/iphone-x/
99% of iPhone users aren’t using landscape mode for anything other than video and gaming. Sorry, but it’s true. You do whatever you need to do for yourself though. It’s hardly a huge step back, and frankly the info was out there long before the phone was released. If you bought it not knowing that, well then shame on you I guess.
No offense, but this is the ravings or a poorly researched consumer posting FUD.
The points of interface of the X are almost the same as the 4.7” iPhone. The display being “bigger” is not just a matter of diagonal size.
This is widely public info that Apple didn’t keep secret at all.
https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/overview/iphone-x/
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Um no, you can rationalize it all you want, but the screen is advertised as bigger. Your posting is a ludicrous assertion, and frankly, less than half baked.
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You are such an amazing pollster, going around talking to 99% of all iPhone users. Amazing. You should be sorry for trying to pawn off your own opinion as fact. But hey, those are the times we live in, so it must be aok.