I'd assume thou if Apple are getting rid of the home button then the screen touch sensor is always active in some mode.There are lots of time you want to just tap the phone button to wake it. So it would seem odd if this function wasn't extended to the whole face of the device with the removal of the button.
Maybe they will have small grid of the solar ambinet light sensor used in the watch to activate touch sensor if one "see" a finger coming or completely turn of sensor if all are blocked to avoid acidental touches.
So Siri could be long touch anywhere on screen. If oled screen easier to trigger a B&W overlay of tap zones for specific functions.
I'd assume thou if Apple are getting rid of the home button then the screen touch sensor is always active in some mode.There are lots of time you want to just tap the phone button to wake it. So it would seem odd if this function wasn't extended to the whole face of the device with the removal of the button.
Maybe they will have small grid of the solar ambinet light sensor used in the watch to activate touch sensor if one "see" a finger coming or completely turn of sensor if all are blocked to avoid acidental touches.
So Siri could be long touch anywhere on screen. If oled screen easier to trigger a B&W overlay of tap zones for specific functions.
Because some people, myself inclusive, prefer to leave hey Siri off.
Getting rid of the home button and Touch ID just because the tech press is obsessed with bezel-less phones I fear is not going to be well received. Especially if there’s all sorts of new gestures involved and especially when the majority of iOS devices in use will still have the home button.
What is that thin bar at the bottom can be tapped to go home?
Finally a paulsaible reason for the lock button to be larger. Not that it shouldn’t be this large anyway. Apple should put some code in the firmware to ignore accidental volume button presses while trying to access Siri this way.
How would it know you're trying to access Siri and not trying to raise or lower the volume? We already have that problem now because they still keep the volume buttons on the opposite side of the wake/sleep/power button.
You would think that Apple could figure out that you don't need Siri when you're playing audio and that you don't need to adjust the volume when you're not playing anything but here we are.
You guys pretend to be knowledgeable on Apple, and yet you understand now what I understood months ago.
The home button will move to the side.
And Apple will use new gestures. Both things are true.
To lock the phone, you either move the notification shade down which triggers FaceID and move your face away which locks the phone. Or you simply put down your phone and like the Watch, AI detects the movements, triggers FaceID to check if someone’s there and if not, locks the phone.
Within an app, you press the button to go home.
Press again to return to the first page of springboard.
Press again to show the notification shade.
Long press for Siri.
Etc…
Pick up the phone, it turns up, scans your face and unlocks. Press the side home button to open the notification shade. This way you can keep on pressing the home button and it will move the shade up and down.
There will be no indicator at the bottom of the phone, but gestures for multitasking will be there.
PS: What clues for all that? The new lock screen mechanism, the longer “lock” button, no front home button, space wasted with a software home button, the shut down setting, and now code.
You guys pretend to be knowledgeable on Apple, and yet you understand now what I understood months ago.
The home button will move to the side.
We shall see if a few days, oh wise one.
I personally think the thin software bar below the typical dock location would make a nice home button. To be dragged up to enter multitasking or further for home. And if Apple were clever, they could add a secondary method where tapping it once would return the user home—like a shortcut that skips the multi-tasking UI. This way it could get out of the way nicely during most use and in particular full screen use where anything other than a thin bar could be annoying. Apple could control the colour and opacity of this bar to keep its design minimal at all times.
You guys pretend to be knowledgeable on Apple, and yet you understand now what I understood months ago.
The home button will move to the side.
And Apple will use new gestures. Both things are true.
To lock the phone, you either move the notification shade down which triggers FaceID and move your face away which locks the phone. Or you simply put down your phone and like the Watch, AI detects the movements, triggers FaceID to check if someone’s there and if not, locks the phone.
Within an app, you press the button to go home.
Press again to return to the first page of springboard.
Press again to show the notification shade.
Long press for Siri.
Etc…
Pick up the phone, it turns up, scans your face and unlocks. Press the side home button to open the notification shade. This way you can keep on pressing the home button and it will move the shade up and down.
There will be no indicator at the bottom of the phone, but gestures for multitasking will be there.
PS: What clues for all that? The new lock screen mechanism, the longer “lock” button, no front home button, space wasted with a software home button, the shut down setting, and now code.
1) You're making absolutely statements that you can't possibly back up. Everything you've said most people here have also said, but they stated it as what they think will most likely happen, not in unconditional statement about what Apple "will" do because no one here has any inside knowledge about Apple's massive and complex internal workings (at least not knowledge they can share) and neither do you.
2) What's the deal with the lack of paragraphs? Not even your postscript could get a carriage return.
Maybe the implementation is: tap to sleep/awake, hold for half a second to invoke Siri, continue holding for 3 seconds to power off. Admittedly, this solution would be ugly. Siri would be trying to help you before getting cutoff by the slide to power off. Yikes...
Removing the home button causes more problems than it resolves.
You don't know that. you're speculating based on rumors and unknowns.
HENCE THE ADVERB "MAYBE," THE FIRST FREAKING WORD IN THE STATEMENT. Geez.
No, your “maybe” was referring to a possible implementation and not what I commented on. I commented on this absolute assertion which was an entirely separate paragraph and what you closed your post with:
“Removing the home button causes more problems than it resolves.”
...which is bogus, and why I said so.
But it nice try at confusing things with your other paragraph about possible UX methods.
Maybe the implementation is: tap to sleep/awake, hold for half a second to invoke Siri, continue holding for 3 seconds to power off. Admittedly, this solution would be ugly. Siri would be trying to help you before getting cutoff by the slide to power off. Yikes...
Removing the home button causes more problems than it resolves.
You don't know that. you're speculating based on rumors and unknowns.
He said maybe and he even said that solution would admittedly be ugly. I appreciate people spitballs ideas. If it's not sound, in complete, or you think you have a better solution then state a rebuttal. When we have a certain poster on this forum that makes absolute claims about things he can't possible know I'd think someone brainstorming and using the appropriate modifiers would be welcome.
My rebuttal is simple — claiming that “removing the home button causes more problems than it resolves” is nonsense. The solutions aren’t even know yet, so it’s impossible to claim that.
I’m not in a discussion on what future UX may be, nor do I understand why you think I am. But white knight away. Look, a damsel in distress!
@StrangeDays, your defence of Apple is commendable. However, you need to realise that a lot of posters here are Apple fans who can have different opinions and can infer different things or speculate differently. It doesn't make them anti-Apple.
Your takedown of some known trolls is always welcome, but it gets tiresome when you blindly jump in to defend Apple from some imaginary snub when someone is speculating without any ulterior motive or malice.
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I'd assume thou if Apple are getting rid of the home button then the screen touch sensor is always active in some mode.There are lots of time you want to just tap the phone button to wake it. So it would seem odd if this function wasn't extended to the whole face of the device with the removal of the button.
Maybe they will have small grid of the solar ambinet light sensor used in the watch to activate touch sensor if one "see" a finger coming or completely turn of sensor if all are blocked to avoid acidental touches.
So Siri could be long touch anywhere on screen.
If oled screen easier to trigger a B&W overlay of tap zones for specific functions.
You would think that Apple could figure out that you don't need Siri when you're playing audio and that you don't need to adjust the volume when you're not playing anything but here we are.
I personally think the thin software bar below the typical dock location would make a nice home button. To be dragged up to enter multitasking or further for home. And if Apple were clever, they could add a secondary method where tapping it once would return the user home—like a shortcut that skips the multi-tasking UI. This way it could get out of the way nicely during most use and in particular full screen use where anything other than a thin bar could be annoying. Apple could control the colour and opacity of this bar to keep its design minimal at all times.
2) What's the deal with the lack of paragraphs? Not even your postscript could get a carriage return.
“Removing the home button causes more problems than it resolves.”
...which is bogus, and why I said so.
But it nice try at confusing things with your other paragraph about possible UX methods.
My rebuttal is simple — claiming that “removing the home button causes more problems than it resolves” is nonsense. The solutions aren’t even know yet, so it’s impossible to claim that.
I’m not in a discussion on what future UX may be, nor do I understand why you think I am. But white knight away. Look, a damsel in distress!
@StrangeDays, your defence of Apple is commendable. However, you need to realise that a lot of posters here are Apple fans who can have different opinions and can infer different things or speculate differently. It doesn't make them anti-Apple.
Your takedown of some known trolls is always welcome, but it gets tiresome when you blindly jump in to defend Apple from some imaginary snub when someone is speculating without any ulterior motive or malice.
Everyone thinks different.