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I had an Oppo F1S for a few weeks, it had a gesture whereby you could swipe and reduce the screen size to something like 60%[1] (guessing) thereby enabling one thumb reach.

My daily driver is an iPhone SE, I have average / medium sized hands and can reach the whole screen well enough.

1. http://androidaustralia-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/u...

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Same for Huawei (swipe on the menu bar at the bottom).

iOS has had the half size screen gesture for a while, on my 6+ it's double touching the home button (not pressing it, just a light touch)

Yes thats true, but did you try to do that gesture on a phone number dial screen? If you do that, it only shows numbers 1 to 9, rest gets hidden and is out of screen area. It would be nice if they managed to show all digits while the gesture brings the screen down.

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