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X users — do you still look for the home button?

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profmjh

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I’ve had my iPhone for six days and am delighted with it. No complaints.

But I keep looking for the home button and then remembering there isn’t one. Sometimes I click the right-hand button because my brain is telling me “click something”!

How long has it taken you to fully make the transition?
 
profmatt said:
I’ve had my iPhone for six days and am delighted with it. No complaints.

But I keep looking for the home button and then remembering there isn’t one. Sometimes I click the right-hand button because my brain is telling me “click something”!

How long has it taken you to fully make the transition?
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No. But I do often try and ignore my home button on my iPads 😉
 
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profmatt said:
I’ve had my iPhone for six days and am delighted with it. No complaints.

But I keep looking for the home button and then remembering there isn’t one. Sometimes I click the right-hand button because my brain is telling me “click something”!

How long has it taken you to fully make the transition?
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I've had the iPhoneX since release date and no longer look for the home button. Oddly enough, I do find myself staring at the IPP10.5 to see if it will unlock. After 3 awkward seconds, I finally push the home button.
 
It’s the opposite for me. I’m finding I’m swiping up with all my devices. Also I sometimes forget and just stare at my iPad and wondering why it’s not unlocking.

Apple nailed it with the new gestures imo . It’s better than using a home button, and Face ID is the perfect compliment. If I hated it I would totally say it too lol
 
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iapplelove said:
It’s the opposite for me. I’m finding I’m swiping up with all my devices. Also I sometimes forget and just stare at my iPad and wondering why it’s not unlocking.

Apple nailed it with the new gestures imo . It’s better than using a home button, and Face ID is the perfect compliment. If I hated it I would totally say it too lol
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This. Took me 15 minutes to get used to it. If that. I am selling my old 6 plus and kept trying to swipe up to go home...
 
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My own opinion is that a lot of phone interactions require more manipulations and take more time. I was demonstrating mine to my 29 year old son (who has one on order) today and was really struck by what I feel are backward steps in terms of ergonomics.

Edit to add: even with that I do really like the X. It's an amazing piece of hardware.
 
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No. And I don't understand why people find it difficult to use such a simple gesture that should already be second nature at this point. In fact, my problem is that I find myself wanting to use the swipe up gesture to return home when using the old iPhones.
 
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Honestly, the gesture just objectively makes sense with the theme of a smartphone.

Gestures are naturally used to navigate our phones, so why wouldn’t unlocking it be carried out in the same manner? Just feels natural.
 
I sort of do. I used to use the home button to figure out which way the phone goes. At night I keep pulling my iPhone X out upside down!

But as of wanting to use the home button, no.
 
No, I adjusted pretty much within the first day. I will admit to still occasionally swiping up to try and get the Control Centre, but that's because I have rarely tried to get there since getting my X. I'm sure I'll get accustomed to that in time as well.
 
I think everyone has a different learning curve. But for me, it was instantaneous. I still have an appreciation for the home button, but gesture controls has a lot of potential with the iPhone and iPad.
 
Nah. It was an easy and surprisingly quick transition. But I do find myself trying to use gestures to open my partners iPhone 7 Plus.
 
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