Fail. That's one thing that irritates me with Android. But I tell you what... I use the double tap on the home button for Reachability... let's see... never. I have the iPhone 6 Plus, but I find the feature annoying and I sometimes accidentally trigger it.
BUT... if there was a way to change that function to go back to the calling app, I think that would be more intuitive. For instance, Safari opens a link in maps... double tap on the home button to return to where you were. It's also pretty intuitive since before you needed to double press the home button to get the multitasking view anyway.
Is this the reason why the flipped the direction of the task switcher? Users that previously did commit that to muscle memory now find they need to do the opposite.
I think it's a poor implementation. It should be scrapped and the 4-finger swipe gesture to the right to return to the previous app should be encouraged instead.
You're not sorry. I assume you guys only test the site with chrome.
Some of us still use Safari on iOS 8. I know, crazy right? Who still uses an iPhone to view this site? We should be using safe and secure android where Flash is still worshipped as a deity, am I right?
In the meantime, can you fix the issue for the last of us iOS 8 Safari-using hold-outs? Because Safari does in fact support HTML5 video:
I think it's a poor implementation. It should be scrapped and the 4-finger swipe gesture to the right to return to the previous app should be encouraged instead.
I think it's a poor implementation. It should be scrapped and the 4-finger swipe gesture to the right to return to the previous app should be encouraged instead.
so you're a four-finger kinda guy huh? Some people like to use less.
How 'bout a hardware Back button? Now where have I seen that before?
How about not? Because in this case, the button only appears in a clearly defined context - when you were catapulted out of whatever you were doing into a different app, it will return you to the previous app.
A hardware button changes function depending upon what you were doing. It could flip you between apps, or return you to one of the home screens, or move back within the app.
This function is explicitly NOT the same as a dedicated hardware back button. It is much more limited and simpler - by design.
Is this the reason why the flipped the direction of the task switcher? Users that previously did commit that to muscle memory now find they need to do the opposite.
I haven't used iOS 9 yet, but on 8, I'm constantly swiping in the wrong direction when flipping between apps.
Now it will be double-tap the home button to activate Reachability so you can tap the new back button in iOS 9. Because everybody wants a phablet.
Ah. Reachability. The feature that in terms of usefulness competes directly with quick type for me. Especially when browsing: tap-tap. Then tap on address bar. Again tap-tap for copying link. New tab. Tap-tap for Address bar. Tap-tap for paste. And not soon after you can modify the link. Ok. Doesn't happen often. But still, all this tapping is close to overloading the UI IMHO. I'm curious whether force touch will simplify or add to the complexity.
And, despite all the "tapping, tapping at my chamber door", there is still no tap or gesture for "scroll to the bottom"... :-(
I guess that's nice, I'd rather they'd fix the intensely annoying "open in app" situation where it springs open a safari tab then bounces you back over to the app. Then you have to go back and manually close the blank safari tab. There has to be a solution for this at some point.
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So six people will get déjà vu? Not the end of the world. Not people have probably never even arena. Windows phone, let alone used one.
Fail. That's one thing that irritates me with Android. But I tell you what... I use the double tap on the home button for Reachability... let's see... never. I have the iPhone 6 Plus, but I find the feature annoying and I sometimes accidentally trigger it.
BUT... if there was a way to change that function to go back to the calling app, I think that would be more intuitive. For instance, Safari opens a link in maps... double tap on the home button to return to where you were. It's also pretty intuitive since before you needed to double press the home button to get the multitasking view anyway.
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You're not sorry. I assume you guys only test the site with chrome.
Some of us still use Safari on iOS 8. I know, crazy right? Who still uses an iPhone to view this site? We should be using safe and secure android where Flash is still worshipped as a deity, am I right?
In the meantime, can you fix the issue for the last of us iOS 8 Safari-using hold-outs? Because Safari does in fact support HTML5 video:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20347352/html5-video-tag-not-working-in-safari-iphone-and-ipad
Not working in my Safari on OS X 10.10 either. And the substitute link doesn't work either. What gives, AI?
So six people will get déjà vu? Not the end of the world. Not people have probably never even arena. Windows phone, let alone used one.
You forgot a few million, Android had this since version 1.0
re : No surprise as Sir Jony has been driving on the wrong side of the road for a considerable period of time in his life ;-)
Ahhh, the old misunderstanding, You, Sir, may have been driving on the right side but we have been driving on the correct side of the road .
I think it's a poor implementation. It should be scrapped and the 4-finger swipe gesture to the right to return to the previous app should be encouraged instead.
Four fingers on the iPhone?
Uh-huh.
I think it's a poor implementation. It should be scrapped and the 4-finger swipe gesture to the right to return to the previous app should be encouraged instead.
so you're a four-finger kinda guy huh? Some people like to use less.
How about not? Because in this case, the button only appears in a clearly defined context - when you were catapulted out of whatever you were doing into a different app, it will return you to the previous app.
A hardware button changes function depending upon what you were doing. It could flip you between apps, or return you to one of the home screens, or move back within the app.
This function is explicitly NOT the same as a dedicated hardware back button. It is much more limited and simpler - by design.
I haven't used iOS 9 yet, but on 8, I'm constantly swiping in the wrong direction when flipping between apps.
Now it will be double-tap the home button to activate Reachability so you can tap the new back button in iOS 9. Because everybody wants a phablet.
Ah. Reachability. The feature that in terms of usefulness competes directly with quick type for me. Especially when browsing: tap-tap. Then tap on address bar. Again tap-tap for copying link. New tab. Tap-tap for Address bar. Tap-tap for paste. And not soon after you can modify the link. Ok. Doesn't happen often. But still, all this tapping is close to overloading the UI IMHO. I'm curious whether force touch will simplify or add to the complexity.
And, despite all the "tapping, tapping at my chamber door", there is still no tap or gesture for "scroll to the bottom"... :-(
A 4 finger swipe on the phone doesn't seem like a good UX. And I wonder how many people even use that gesture on the iPad.
I use it all the time, especially four-finger swipe up to get to the app switcher (since swipe direction between apps seems to switch randomly* ).
*) I know it's not random, but it flips often enough to be annoying, so I go via the switcher instead.
A back button, side by side apps, the ability to watch a video while doing something else.
Who cares if the photocopiers are working overtime in Cupertino. I am happy iOS9 is finally giving us these basic features.
I guess that's nice, I'd rather they'd fix the intensely annoying "open in app" situation where it springs open a safari tab then bounces you back over to the app. Then you have to go back and manually close the blank safari tab. There has to be a solution for this at some point.
And, despite all the "tapping, tapping at my chamber door", there is still no tap or gesture for "scroll to the bottom"... :-(
I second that.
This is awesome. I was thinking I wished the button existed, now it does!
This will definitely save time. A little tweak that I'm actually pretty jazzed about.