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iPhone X Why so much wasted space around the "notch?"

mavis

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I've had my iPhone X for a couple of weeks now and I'm loving it so far, except for one thing: not being able to see when headphones are connected, or when DND is active, is REALLY annoying. I'm wondering why Apple didn't make the 'ears' capable of displaying two lines of text/icons? I mean, there's plenty of room ...
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I would argue botch is a bad compromise to the so called edge to edge display, unless they figure out a way to put camera and sensor under the screen and make them work. Notch is not the answer.
But, regarding the “wasted space”, if you zoom out a bit, what would happen? All of your icons will be too difficult to see. This is even worse than before.
 
mavis said:
I've had my iPhone X for a couple of weeks now and I'm loving it so far, except for one thing: not being able to see when headphones are connected, or when DND is active, is REALLY annoying. I'm wondering why Apple didn't make the 'ears' capable of displaying two lines of text/icons? I mean, there's plenty of room ...View attachment 741604
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Because Apple is and always has been about minimal design and form before function. You will never see that type of cramped design.
 
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mavis said:
I've had my iPhone X for a couple of weeks now and I'm loving it so far, except for one thing: not being able to see when headphones are connected, or when DND is active, is REALLY annoying. I'm wondering why Apple didn't make the 'ears' capable of displaying two lines of text/icons? I mean, there's plenty of room ...View attachment 741604
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Thanks for the picture.

I've been saying this for a while myself. There's room for those icons to make the Home-screen much more 'informative'. You've managed to insert 3 icons on the top row, which is one more than I imagined. The more, the merrier.

Hopefully Apple do something similar to what you've done there.
 
magamen said:
This is a good idea, you should submit a feedback ticket. you never know what might happen.
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Actually, I would email Craig Federighi personally, which would not necessarily guarantee a response, but at least would be reviewed by someone on his support team or himself.
 
I don't see it as too cramped. Not unlike having the entire traditional Status Bar filled with just about all available icons. The benefits outweigh that imo.

But Apple won't touch it, as it blocks the ears & takes away the edge to edge effect/illusion they were going for with the 10, which I also disagree with - you can still see the background & it shouldn't take away from the in-App experience.
 
magamen said:
This is a good idea, you should submit a feedback ticket. you never know what might happen.
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You don’t think the 200k+ a year developers thought about this? Common....
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mavis said:
I've had my iPhone X for a couple of weeks now and I'm loving it so far, except for one thing: not being able to see when headphones are connected, or when DND is active, is REALLY annoying. I'm wondering why Apple didn't make the 'ears' capable of displaying two lines of text/icons? I mean, there's plenty of room ...View attachment 741604
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They wanted the icons to line up with the bottom of the notch. This is way too cluttered and busy.
They could add something more to the left side imo. Right side you can add a small icon or two above and keep placement of other icons where they are
 
x-evil-x said:
You don’t think the 200k+ a year developers thought about this? Common....
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They wanted the icons to line up with the bottom of the notch. This is way too cluttered and busy.
They could add something more to the left side imo. Right side you can add a small icon or two above and keep placement of other icons where they are
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Yeah my original thoughts were 2 icons max on the top row, on each side, above what the current X displays. That, plus the battery percentage inside the battery icon.
 
The improvements will come with iOS 12 and iPhone X-2 will be more refined. I’m holding out for the iPhone x2, but Im still on the fence for iPhone X, lol I just can’t decide
 
Of all things, they couldn't fit the alarm symbol on the bunny ears without a CC pull down?

Or battery % instead of the graphic?

At least they didn't waste one on the carrier name. I'm sure that was met with tons of internal debate and followup meetings at Cupertino :p
 
magamen said:
This is a good idea, you should submit a feedback ticket. you never know what might happen.
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We all know exactly what will happen... nothing! The wifi toggle in control Center is a complete joke too, it doesn’t turn off wifi but rather disconnects it..... REALLY APPLE??!!
 
Ipadfever said:
We all know exactly what will happen... nothing! The wifi toggle in control Center is a complete joke too, it doesn’t turn off wifi but rather disconnects it..... REALLY APPLE??!!
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Nice side perk of it auto connecting to random public wifi networks in passing, at best just bringing data to a screeching halt. At worst, a serious security concern
 
mavis said:
I've had my iPhone X for a couple of weeks now and I'm loving it so far, except for one thing: not being able to see when headphones are connected, or when DND is active, is REALLY annoying. I'm wondering why Apple didn't make the 'ears' capable of displaying two lines of text/icons? I mean, there's plenty of room ...View attachment 741604
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don't like how that looks...far too cramped.
 
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