Top 10 iPhone X Tips and Tricks: Reachability, Face ID, Screenshots and More

[ErikGrim]

2 questions; is anyone else annoyed by the translucent bar at the bottom to indicate swipe to home screen? I think aesthetically it's awful (I get it don't get me wrong), however, is there an option to hide that? Once you understand the operating system you surely don't need a perpetual visual reminder????

If an app is optimised for the X, in portrait mode it would look weird without it. I do wish full screen apps like games will be able to hide it however.
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No it doesn't. You are just telling yourself that because you just paid $$ for a new phone.

It absolutely 100% is more natural than a home button. Maybe try one before you post and you won’t be so uninformed next time.

 

[DeanL]

I completely agree and that's my problem. My point is best highlighted by this story from Steve Jobs' biography, which I do not believe would ever happen with an iPhone X:

“Jobs was stired by a story by Michael Noer on Forbes.com. Noer was reading a science fiction novel on his iPad while staying in a rural area north of Bogota, Colombia , when a poor 6-year-old boy came up to him. Curious, Noer handed him the device. With no instruction, and never having seen a computer before, the boy started using it intuitively. He began swiping the screen, launching apps, playing a pinball game. Noel wrote: “Steve Jobs has designed a powerful computer than an illiterate 6-year-old can use without instruction, if that isn’t magical I don’t know what is.”"



Not talking about more advanced features like Siri, I mean the basics of using the phone. Swipe to unlock, launching apps, going home from wherever you are etc. And iOS 7 didn't change the functionality in that way, it was a UI redesign, I'm talking about UX.

So which one is that you want? Functionality, or "illiteracy easiness level"? At some point, you can't have both.

 

[Baymowe335]

There is nothing accessible about iPhone X. Apple did away with a lot of user friendliness just to remove a home button. What a gimmick.

Guessing you don’t own one? I literally hate the home button on my iPad Pro after using the X for 4 days.

 

[AnthonyG6]

Swiping up from the bottom to get home has just become second nature now, I find myself swiping up from the bottom on my iPad! I can’t wait for them to implement these gestures and indeed Face ID into the next iPads too. Although I’ve just bought the 10.5” Pro when I picked up the X, I’d be more than happy to replace that with a new one without a Home Button.

 

[DscheyH]

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.

A much faster way to open the app switcher is by swiping in a banana like curve from bottom up to right or left.

 

[dilbert99]

A much faster way to open the app switcher is by swiping in a banana like curve from bottom up to right or left.

yup cheers, heard about that the other day.

 

[johngordon]

I don't think there's that much in it to be honest - you only have to swipe up to about the top of the dock to invoke the app switcher. Probably mentioned already, but when you press to make the red cross appear to close an app, you can still swipe it up to close - you don't have to tap the red cross.
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Swiping up from the bottom to get home has just become second nature now, I find myself swiping up from the bottom on my iPad! I can’t wait for them to implement these gestures and indeed Face ID into the next iPads too. Although I’ve just bought the 10.5” Pro when I picked up the X, I’d be more than happy to replace that with a new one without a Home Button.

Yup - I still have my old phone and have been swiping up on that. Its crazy how tiny the SE screen feels in comparison.