Couple this with the no-bezel iPhones, and there is no way to hold your phone without touching the screen and accelerating the video (or clicking on ads).
Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses
by encrypted_bird on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @08:21PM
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Serious question as I use an Android device, but do people not purchase cases for iphones? I use an Otterbox case for my phone and it gives it a bezel (though the phone might have had one to begin with—I don't remember).
Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses
by bigstrat2003 on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @10:15PM
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People do, but they shouldn't have to purchase a case to have their phone correctly. I have never purchased a case for a phone and have no intention to start, myself.
Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses
by encrypted_bird on Friday May 02, 2025 @08:03PM
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That is a really stupid design decision. I am so sorry for users who have to deal with that.
Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses
by encrypted_bird on Friday May 02, 2025 @08:04PM
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Ignore my other reply as it was meant for another comment. Regarding your comment:
I mean, I suppose you're right. However, that being said, a case is a good idea nonetheless, just as is a screen protector. A good case protects the phone against damage from dropping, just as a good screen protector does the same for the screen.
I have a case for my iphone and the problem I have described is happening even with that on.
Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses
by encrypted_bird on Friday May 02, 2025 @08:05PM
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That is unfortunate friend. I guess I was wrong. Not all cases provide that solution...
Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses
by theshackleford on Thursday May 01, 2025 @01:42AM
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> and there is no way to hold your phone without touching the screen
Sure there is. iPhone or otherwise, I don’t touch the screen when holding my phone.
Might be an issue for people with small hands perhaps. I’m trying to figure out in what circumstances I would be forced to touch my display whilst merely holding my phone but can’t of one, so it must be a size/grip thing, or I’m just holding my phone like a weirdo.
I agree, this obsession with filling the entire surface area with touch-sensitive display, and the quest for zero edge bevel width, is the bane of usability, often the soft fleshy part of your hand holding on the edge folds over and marginally makes contact with the screen, and then the screen ignores all your tops from your other hand that you explicitly makes.
Same stuff with the mobile youtube app. If you so much as graze the screen anywhere while watching a video the replay speed doubles. This is so sensitive that even a tiny unintentional finger touch, or a water droplet landing on the screen triggers it. Whoever thought that is a good idea as a feature, i can’t comprehend.
Plus they have no data to see how badly their feature annoys me. From a metrics perspective “the user wanted to fast forward for 5s” looks the same as “a careless finger cradling the phone triggered the fast forward and it took the user 5s to realise what is going on and adjust their hold, now they are annoyed at how fragile this app is”. Someone might have even used the statistics of all the inadvertent activations in their promo package to show what a popular feature they made!