What's wrong with sliding up to switch apps / go 'home'

It made me question why they took so long to get rid of the home button.

Yeah I was put off at first but in general it works perfectly, so I have no complaints at all. Using all available space for the screen is the right design choice, I think.

I still haven’t mastered it. I trigger it when I don’t want to and can’t trigger sometimes when I want to. I’m still only about 50% successful bringing up the app switcher.

You don’t slide up to switch apps, you do it to go home.

To switch apps you have to do an extremely frustrating gesture that shows you the app switcher half the time and the other half of the time it’s switches you directly to the previous app.

I’ll never buy an iPhone without a home button unless they fix the accessibility software home button so that it doesn’t sit right on top of the icons and the rest of the user interface. They should have at least given you an option to have a row of software buttons like Android does.

For anyone considering a 6S: it's not slow at all, and the camera is just fine. Just bought another one two months ago.

It's probably not getting OS updates (ie. security patches) after iOS 13, though.

Here I am sitting on a several-years-old iPhone 6s and a recently-purchased 2015 Macbook.

When iPhone dies I was planning on getting another 6s[0], but didn't even really consider LTS. Crap.

[0] Mostly for the headphone jack, but I suppose I also prefer touchid over faceid

On one hand bummer about security on the other hand at least you don’t have to worry about apple patching out things that used to work or otherwise messing up the experience

iOS 12 still supports the 5s. If iOS 13 supports up to the 6, then iOS 14 will likely support the 6s.

iOS 13 drops support for the 6. It'll be 6s/SE and above for iOS 13. It'll be interesting to see what they do for iOS 14. I was surprised that they cut off both the 6 and 5s this year.

They’ll definitely keep dropping at least one iOS every year on average. Right now the 6S is going to be 4 years old. If they cut back to only 3 year old models. That’s pretty recent. Will be interesting to see if they do that. Removing the 6S Plus is also interesting. I thought maybe they’d give the Plus or higher end models a year longer to incentivize purchasing those.

t’s not really a huge deal to me that they’re likely purposefully going to try to keep the newest iOS limited to only a few years. Supporting 4 year old devices is still pretty good. And being on an old iOS for a few years isn’t the biggest deal.

It’s cause they know that most users are ok using the old stuff and want to force people to update. The iPhone 5 and 6 were fast enough for most needs