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iPhone X People with the X - do you miss the home button at all?
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Very smooth and I don’t miss the home button. Love the iPhone X
...if you miss the Home button, you do know that you can use Apple's virtual Home button as well (which works like the physical one but is a virtual on screen button), which is accessed via the Accessibility Settings?
I've been doing this very thing on my 8 Plus over the past year, so as to not constantly press the physical button.
I don't miss it at all and the experience switching between apps is actually quite a bit smoother on the X than it is on my work-issued 7.
Everything is a lot smoother on the X than it is on the 7, from unlocking the phone, to authenticating, to even waking the display. I like being able to just touch the screen without having to press home or raise to wake. And switching between apps is much smoother to just lift and hold, or just swipe, than it is to double click the home button.
Everything is a lot smoother on the X than it is on the 7, from unlocking the phone, to authenticating, to even waking the display. I like being able to just touch the screen without having to press home or raise to wake. And switching between apps is much smoother to just lift and hold, or just swipe, than it is to double click the home button.
You adjust really quickly, the flick left and right at the bottom is so much faster, the swipe up is so much faster. The interface feels so much more fluid using swipe motions rather than the clicking motions. The whole UI just feels more uniform and integrated smoothly. It's only sad Steve Jobs got to miss out on experiencing it.
FaceID is REALLY good. There are lots of times when it works so much better than TouchID. Damp hands, touch-assist gloves on.
But there's a few times when I wish still had touchID. Bright direct sunlight, fumbling around in middle of night when Im all squinty, maybe others.
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Or swipe up to get the old school style of app panes.
FaceID is REALLY good. There are lots of times when it works so much better than TouchID. Damp hands, touch-assist gloves on.
But there's a few times when I wish still had touchID. Bright direct sunlight, fumbling around in middle of night when Im all squinty, maybe others.
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Swipe left and right at bottom of phone to quick multitask, best solution ever, so fast.
Or swipe up to get the old school style of app panes.
...if you miss the Home button, you do know that you can use Apple's virtual Home button as well (which works like the physical one but is a virtual on screen button), which is accessed via the Accessibility Settings?
I've been doing this very thing on my 8 Plus over the past year, so as to not constantly press the physical button.
I used it for a while and got tired of it being in the way. Turned it off now
I've been doing this very thing on my 8 Plus over the past year, so as to not constantly press the physical button.
You realize since the 7 iPhone does not have a physically home button?
I don't miss it at all, love swiping across the bottom to switch between apps, or just the swipe up and hold to bring up the list - it's great... love that they added this to the iPad as well, although I still haven't trained myself to use it on my Pro as of yet. I don't see myself ever wanting to go back from FaceID either - it's as good as TouchID for me, if not better
I don't miss the home button at all. My iPad Pro 2 has touchID, and other then authenticating, I never use the home button. I completely use gestures. Its one of the reasons I chose to upgrade to the X. I love the gestures. They are very fluid and work so well.
It only takes a day or so and you will be used to the X and will find any phone with a home button hard to use. I have a 8+ as a spare in case my X gets lost or broken and I charge it every few months and it is hard o get used to a home button again. I love how well FaceID works for me.
Humans can adapt!
Do not miss the home button at all. I still have a 7 as a work phone and am constantly swiping up to to unlock and instead getting control center. Going back and forth between a device that does not have one (primary) and a device that does have one (work) can be confusing with gestures, etc. But not everyone is in this situation.
You can also swipe from left to right (or right to left once you are deeper into the multitasked application/s) at the bottom of the screen to move from application to application. If you engage with the application or let it sit on the screen long enough, it becomes the first application in the list and you would start from the beginning again. The video in the quote below shows what I am referring too.
You push up and hold for a split second. This will engage multitasking and allow you to see all of the open applications. If you press and hold one, you can then force quit an application. In iOS 12, you will just be able to flick upwards to quit an application, an enhancement I am looking forward to and feel like it should have been this way from the beginning.
You can also swipe from left to right (or right to left once you are deeper into the multitasked application/s) at the bottom of the screen to move from application to application. If you engage with the application or let it sit on the screen long enough, it becomes the first application in the list and you would start from the beginning again. The video in the quote below shows what I am referring too.
You have to press and hold and wait for a do not enter sign to come up near the app. It’s back to the old way on iOS 12