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I just upgraded to the iPhone 6s from the iphone 5s. It's pretty good but my only grief, and not a small one though one I could have thought about before buying, is the large size of the phone.

I am not a small guy but I can't reach the whole screen with a single thumb like I could on the 5s. And the problem is that iOS places all sort of important commands at the top of the screen (back button, URL bar, etc), in the unreachable area. So it means the 6s can't be used with a single hand which is not a small UX change.

I hope they will make smaller future versions, or move all the essential functions to the bottom of the screen. Right now even the icons on the desktop are top aligned.

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You probably already know about this but this is what the double tap (not press) of the home button is for. Technically you can still use the phone with one hand.

It's not really a great solution but you get used to it.

I actually didn't know. Useful trick indeed. Thanks!

After a little over a year with the iPhone 6, my general workflow goes like this:

1. I can use this one handed, that button over in the opposite corner doesn't look too far away. Reach for it. 2. My palm hits a button in the bottom-nearby corner. 3. Undo last action. 4. Try for the button again. 5. My palm hits another button the bottom-nearby corner. 6. Undo last action. 7. Oh right, that home-button trick. Double-tap the home button. 8. Reach the button.

I don't try to forget that functionality, but it doesn't occur often enough that I instantly think of it. In fact, having used iPhones since the 3gs, the go-to-move when you needed to reach a button out of reach with one-hand way the nose-press, which still comes more naturally to me than "reachability."

I guess if you can train yourself on it, it's good, but after having to use my wife's 4s the other weekend, I long to return to those days, size-wise.

I've heard this referred to as "the footstool" and "the emasculator."

I noticed this too, you can however lightly double tap (don't click) the home button and it brings the top half off the screen down to the middle of the screen.

the large size of the phone.

The joke I've seen floating about is "iPhone 6 users wish they had gone with the larger 6+, and 6+ users hate the large size and wish they had gone with the 6"

I think they're both huge.

Well, yeah, me too.

What I’ve heard is that folks with the 6+ generally love it, 6 users either wish they’d gone all the way w/ 6+ or wanna go back to the 5S.

(my money is on small/medium/large next year, waiting out this whole model/generation)

I would hope for that, but I'm afraid that the rumored 4" device was just the 2015 iPod Touch.

I just did the same upgrade (this morning). The size and weight increase are definitely noticeable and unfortunate. I'm hoping the speed bump and camera improvement will make it worth it.

There actually are Screen Protector that allows you to press the space next to the Home Button, and the "touch" will signal to the same side's top corner of the screen.

>back button

This is why they've pushed the swipe-to-go-back gesture. The screen edges are curved for this reason.

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