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Top 10 iPhone X Tips and Tricks: Reachability, Face ID, Screenshots and More
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The new gestures are easy to learn and allow for much quicker interaction with the device, as the finger doesn't have to travel to the home button and back.
This is Smartphone UI 2.0. After 10 years of training, people are ready for something a bit less intuitive but way faster. Anyhow, my 6 yrs old daughter, raised since she was 1 with the iPad, adapted in literally one minute to the new UI.
This is Smartphone UI 2.0. After 10 years of training, people are ready for something a bit less intuitive but way faster. Anyhow, my 6 yrs old daughter, raised since she was 1 with the iPad, adapted in literally one minute to the new UI.
Really? so all other smart-phone manufacturers will be adopting this new paradigm?
Have you actually used the phone? I’ve owned it less than 24 hours and the UI is amazingly intuitive and you catch on immediately. It works with 100% accuracy. They did a fantastic job with it. This phone is just stunning.
Again, I’ll assume you haven’t used it. If you haven’t used it your opinion doesn’t hold any water.
Thanks for the tips, another to add is how to return to your apps page 1 (home page) from any other apps page. On the iPhone 7 you could do this by double tapping the home button, on the iPhone X you just swipe up from the bottom and you will see you are navigated back to the first page of apps.
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I have used it.
So it is intuitive to swipe up from the bottom and pause until the app switcher appears.
Apart from not being intuitive, its also slower than double clicking the home button.
Its intuitive to press and hold the side button to get siri?
Double press it to get siri
Press same button plus volume to take a screenshot
press a bit longer to get the power off screen to appear.
To force reset instead press the volume down rather than up button
App gliding - tap and hold then move your thumb in an arc
On my phone swipe up for control centre, now you have to swipe down from the upper right corner - talk about consistency
You have to read the manual to figure out all these things or view a website so hence not intuitive...
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I keep seeing the camera's over there in the video flashing (red) every time u use the face ID while mine doesn't (I own an iPhone X ) so im really wondering if theres a problem with my phone ?
Different doesn’t mean unintuitive. I got used to it immediately. I guess I’m just young and hip like that.
IR lights are not visible to human eyes: try taking a video of your phone while unlocking ;-)
Sorry, but intuitive doesn't mean what you think it means.
Intuitive means things like a left lamp flashing when you are turning left. Or swipe left or right to navigate through a list or pinch to zoom or swipe up to scroll up.
If I said to you swipe down from the top left of the screen, what function would you intuitively attach to that function?
The people using the virtual home button are the same people still using a headphone jack adapter.
One gesture I don't know how to do is... If I'm on the 5th page of all my apps.. how do i quickly get back to the first page?
Swipe up on the Home Bar like you would to get home from an app.
That is infrared light , only camera can see it
start recording iphone with a camera and you will see it
After reading this comment I started to think about the logic behind it and it actually makes a lot of sense.
- Swiping down on the the time brings you to the Cover Sheet which is basically a screen with the time really large and with missed notifications.
- Swiping down from the cell signal and Wi-Fi bar and battery indicator brings you to Control Centre which has all kinds of toggles to make changes to cellular data, Wi-Fi, battery saving, etc.
- Swiping up to go back home also makes sense from an animation standpoint.
So to me it even makes more sense now! In a couple of years all iPhones and iPads will adopt these gestures and we've forgotten about how all previous iPhones worked
I've got a feature that was missed:
The suspension of awareness that would allow you to realize you just spend $1,000+ on a phone.
Sheesh.
The suspension of awareness that would allow you to realize you just spend $1,000+ on a phone.
Sheesh.
The worth of something is determined by what someone is prepared to pay for it. Is a phone 'worth' over a $1000? Well, millions of people seem to think it is.
