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Plus is Easier to Use One Handed Than The X
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I have big hands and the Plus is not easier to use with one hand than the X. I used the Plus two handed most of the time and use the X two handed. I had the Note 8 for a hot minute and it was harder than The Plus and X to use one handed.
Because people feel the need to do more than just use the phone. Check supermarkets and malls and folks walking and commuting to nyc. A large majority of them are doing more than just using their phone.
They best have Apple Care, they can rant and rave all they want they never drop or will drop their phone regardless. Guess their crystal ball works better than mine.
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I suppose it depends on how you use the phone. For me, the X is way easier to one-hand than my plus just because of Face ID. I don't have to use my thumb so often. Size helps too. I went from 6 Plus to 7 Plus to X, and like the change. But I can sure understand how some will prefer the 8 Plus.
It's an extra $40, but I've found Apple's silicone case to be worth it. More than a few drops, no breaks.
Same here. After three years with Plus phones (6 Plus, 6S Plus and then the 7 Plus) I find the X much easier to use, one-handed.
To the extent that the OP has a point, I think you explained it. One of the awkward UI aspects of iOS 11 on the X is having to reach for the top corners of that generous screen (which is actually slightly taller in portrait mode than a Plus), and I don't find reachability a very useful workaround on the X. As someone else pointed out above, though, this whole thread is IMO/YMMV. And yes, I owned a 6 Plus, so I've had real world experience with this.
It's not about laziness – kids, life, etc. means I rarely have the other hand free. Fortunately, I don't drop my phone (including my current 7+)
Please understand I mean no offense, but I don't buy the kids, life, etc stuff.
I have a wife, two kids and a job.
Granted I do not have much of a life, but both my kids were taught very early on to respect property. I don't know how many times I got up and moved my son or daughter clear across a room as toddlers because they were starting to approach stuff they had no business touching.
If I'm on a call and something happens, I call the person back. If I needed to take care of something while I had my phone it was put down first. I can't focus on two different things at once. In fact, both my children got their diapers changed on the floor several times because it's very difficult to fall off the floor and hurt yourself.
My wife was the same. Our children learned not to touch our phones, our computers, our stuff. Our kids never ran around breaking stuff or getting involved in things they were not supposed to be involved with. Having their hands slapped or their butts spanked when they did something wrong was enough to teach them not to be hellions or destructive nuisances.
Yelling, klcking, screaming, tantrums were not tolerated. Ever. So we never had to deal with any of that stuff happening while we had a phone in our hand.
Maybe I'm just fortunate but there is nothing I ever have to do (or my wife) that is so important it requires one handed manipulation of a device while trying to attend to something else.
Maybe my life is just boring, but I've never had these issues. Which doesn't mean they don't exist, but I think just says where priorities fall. I love my kids, but they can wait until I put my phone down first.
Maybe just the way my wife and I were raised.
Cool, I guess? You were the one who mentioned dropping your phone, lol. I'd probably be extra careful too if I had that tendency.
Yes, I've dropped it one handed.
But not in the context of the subject of this thread.
When I dropped my phone it was because I was either trying to put it away and missed (a pocket in my pants) or was transitioning it from one hand to the other when getting in the car.
Those were both regrettable instances that have forced me to pay more attention.
But when using the phone to call, text, etc, it's two handed (the exception being holding the phone to my ear on a call).
I agree, my 7+ is easier to use one handed while cradling it between my right ring finger and pinky, even without reachability (that I rarely ever use).
And on the X it's harder to invoke reachability one handed on the X because the home bar is set so low that my finger sweeps down into my pinky on which the phone is resting.
[doublepost=1512973705][/doublepost]I agree with the OP. I tried the X for 2 weeks, and I much prefer my 7 plus, in many ways, including one handed use. Reachability on the plus is much more intuitive and easier to do, and the control panel from the bottom just makes more common sense due to the fact that your thumb is “right there” at the bottom to swipe up with.
Yep. Cause everything on the Plus is right there where your thumb is raised from the edge of the screen. The X uses too much screen. The app drawer is in a much convenient place on the Plus. And Control Center which I use a lot isn’t on the edge of the screen. On the X it’s not the phone it’s the UI.
As you see there is some users who have the same experience as me. I’m thinking people who have issues with the X are those that use their iPhone on the pinky shelf like myself. The X is not a pinky shelf device and certainty extremely difficult to use reachability with a case that has lay on the table / lip to it. It’s like I have to dig to get reachability to work in a case with lip.
Well good for you. I have large hands and find the Plus model to be the most difficult iPhone to use one-handed period. I honestly prefer 4" iPhones, but not opposed to the 4.7 inch models and iPhone X. Saying the Plus is easier to use than the X with one hand is like saying the sky is green.
4" phones are easiest to one hand no doubt... can you even use an SE with two hands?
One in each hand is 8" of screen for $300, check and mate.
One in each hand is 8" of screen for $300, check and mate.
the screen and design is probably the best this year but android still has severe issues with bad animations and non-cohesive eco-system. otherwise its great.
but after a few months of use the laggy animations were crippling the experience badly for me
The UI of the 6/7/8 within it’s form factor is easier to use 1 handed. Even with a case. I use a Magpul Field case for my 8 and it’s still easier to use 1 handed. It’s because everything you need to access is right there between the bezels. To access Control Center on my 8 resting on my pinky shelf don’t have to maneuver or anything. Same with notifications.
I said the Plus is easier to use 1 handed than the X. Never said the X couldn’t be use 1 handed just said the Plus was easier. It’s easier cause the UI is more in tune with 1 hand use. Actually that was 1 of the iPhones forte.