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4.7" iphone. They enlarge tap regions for tappable elements since forever, so you can’t miss.

If you have 3 tap regions already adjacent before enlargement, how does enlarging them help? Like the w, a and s keys on a keyboard. Making the regions larger will just make them overlap.

Idk how apple does that exactly. I’d just voronoi it if they intersect and tap outside-ish, just like I do with hn vote arrows.

Anyway my point is that you can design interfaces denser than three buttons per screen and they will work. Not that a 5mm block with 8 links in it is a good button bar.

You can miss quite easily if there is another tappable element right next to the one you are trying to click

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