Comment by untog | Hacker News Reader

Comment by untog | Hacker News Reader

This smaller notification size would look pretty terrible on 4" devices like the iPhone SE. In fact, it already looks kind of terrible in the mockup provided.

IMO Apple is long overdue admitting that putting navigation buttons on the top bar was a mistake. Fine in the era of the original iPhone, but as phones get progressively bigger and taller, less so. The swipe back gesture works in most situations, but I was a fan of Allen Pike's mockup of bottom navigation on the iPhone X (or, "Pro", at the time):

https://www.allenpike.com/2017/developing-for-iphone-pro/

Having navigation at the bottom is one of the few things Android got absolutely right at launch when compared to Apple. But back to notifications, Android isn't great either: if a new notification arrives while I'm swiping old ones away there's no consideration that I might not want to swipe away something I haven't even read yet, so it disappears immediately and with no way to get it back. Frustrating.

> but I was a fan of Allen Pike's mockup of bottom navigation on the iPhone X (or, "Pro", at the time)

That looks too much like how Android navigation works. Apple will never go for something like this.

But they moved the lock button to the side as it was in android since forever, right? So navigation like android is not impossible. What is impossible is to reach the upper left corner with one hand

The Android back button is in the right position but does three things depending on the application:

- Go back one document (like internet) - Go back one screen - Leave the app

A lot of Android users just hammer the back button and then the application icon again if they want to go to the Home screen of an application.

Also it's always there even if you don't have a document to go back to. Nor it provides extra information about the previous document like the title.

Personally I would like a back button down there (next to the home button) that also holds a miniature of the previous document that animates in and out of place.

Swiping from the side of the screen is much more convenient than buttons, and fits perfectly with the X's gesture-based app switching. Pretty much all apps now do this (I believe UIKit has it built in, so all native apps).

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