I think I'm the only person who likes iOS's reachability gesture. The only annoying thing about it is sometimes it will trigger touchUpInside for buttons along the bottom of the screen, navigating me away from the screen I was on.
I realize that research shows people use bigger phones more, but I'm the odd one out. I've been on the X, and it is too big. I use my phone far less than I did when they were smaller. It is just awkward and annoying.
I'll have to hold the Mini to see if it is small enough to actually make a difference, I might actually buy a new phone before the old one croaks.
The 4 was the best them, in my opinion.
I actually consider individual app designs the problem
iOS navigation is such that you shouldnt need to use the top portion of the screen, to go back you can swipe from the left edge to right, except some apps override that default behavior
This was true with the first jumbo phones, but is less the case now. Notification Center and the Control Center both require you to swipe down from the top of the screen. The "Back to previous app" function is also a very narrow touch target all the way at the topmost left edge of the screen.
miniswipe on the bottom, miniswipe from the center of the screen
if you weren't using iphones for the last 5 years I can see how it would be perceived as an antipattern. if you've been using computers for a while though, then I've seen worse.
I am on the 11 (I think? I've lost track, but its the one with three cameras), and the screen is slightly too large for easy one-handed use, at least in my case. I might opt for the mini if/when I decided to get a new phone, but throwing $1000 at a new toy just because it's slightly more comfortable in my hand feels like a very "first-world" solution to a not-really-problem. None of the other features this phone comes with feel like they bring any extra value to my life or warrant an upgrade.
But hey, newer, faster chips mean it can probably run Doom now, right?
So it might be a cool feature, but if you don't know about it you'll go mad trying to understand what is wrong with your phone. And it's not like Apple is good at teaching users about power user gestures. I still feel I'm not using my iPhone at its full capacity yet.
There are one or two apps I use that seem to reliably have the touchUpInside issue you describe, so I wonder if it's down to their implementation. The Redfin app in particular is terrible with this.
As someone with a touch ID phone who didn’t know about this feature - thank you! This will change how I use my phone.
(Admittedly not 100% always and probably not on non-native apps)
From my XR experience there was an option to shift the keyboard to the side, so they acknowledge the design flaw.
and switched away from Android the exact moment iphones went away from the Fisher Price toy look
at the same time, I have larger hands (proportionate for someone thats 6 feet tall) and I dont understand why people like the Max series!
so its all preferences and Apple has the pulse on the market correctly that the market can tolerate multiple SKUs at different sizes