Please explain, how is your post at all relevant to his post?
Safari scroll inertia was updated to match the inertia in every other app in iOS 11, yes.
Yet here we are in the iOS 12 forum and OP is saying that when viewing large documents, scrolling with flicks isn’t ideal, and wouldn’t it be good to be able to grab the scroller.
Even if OP is talking about viewing documents in Safari, how is your comment about an update to inertia a year ago relevant?
The OP implied that, after ten years, workflows and use cases have changed while Apple stayed still, at least concerning scrolling.
I wanted to point out that this is not exactly true as Apple is tweaking scrolling behaviours in iOS, like in Safari in iOS11. Perhaps not in obvious ways or in the ways the OP (or I) would like to see. We can agree or disagree with Apple’s decisions but they ARE testing user interface scrolling behaviours and re-evaluating with time.
However, many of the changes seem to be app-specific at the moment.
Example:
- safari scroll behaviour changed with iOS11, used to be unique and slower, now it’s faster and consistent with the rest of the OS. I chose this example because it’s the most recent re-evaluation of a scrolling behaviour that I know. Even if we are in the iOS 12 forum, this change might have been subtle enough that the OP or other users might have missed it.
Here are other examples of improved scroll behaviors, again, app-specific.
- Photos has a (hidden) fast scroll down shortcut.
- Pages has a gesture (swipe from the left) to make page preview appear so that you don’t need to scroll too much.
- in Apple Books it is actually possible to drag the scrollbar, similarly to how the OP suggested.
