Re:Modern iOS Navigation Patterns
by cassianoleal on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @08:57PM
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I don't know what you find bad about the iOS keyboard. I don't think it's brilliant either but I find it much better than Android's.
> the buggy text selection (editing URLs is a chore, holding the spacebar to move the cursor is broken when you move too far...)
I'm right there with you on these.
> positioning the unreliable sometimes-available back button at the top left has made me drop my phone at least once.
As a person with small hands, I hear you. I miss the days of the original iPhone which was probably >90% usable with a single hand.
Even the discontinued iPhone Mini was too large - which I suspect has been most of the reason of its "failure". Comparing with larger phones, the smaller screen is a downside, and it came without the upside of actually being a single-hand device so it's more or less lose-lose.
> the buggy text selection (editing URLs is a chore, holding the spacebar to move the cursor is broken when you move too far...)
I'm right there with you on these.
> positioning the unreliable sometimes-available back button at the top left has made me drop my phone at least once.
As a person with small hands, I hear you. I miss the days of the original iPhone which was probably >90% usable with a single hand.
Even the discontinued iPhone Mini was too large - which I suspect has been most of the reason of its "failure". Comparing with larger phones, the smaller screen is a downside, and it came without the upside of actually being a single-hand device so it's more or less lose-lose.