Now that’s an idea about using Assistive touch as a virtual Home button! I never thought of that.
Gera Enviado desde mi iPhone SE de Telcel El 8 nov 2018, a la(s) 3:55 p. m., Cristóbal Muñoz <[email protected]> escribió: > Speedwise, the SE can still hold its own. I was getting more hanging and apps > taking longer to open, switching between apps and things like that to where > it was getting noticeable for me though. My business line I use for mainly > receiving and making calls. All the other work related stuff like alerts, > texting, calendar look ups, email, etc I do off of my main phone. Thus I > decided to upgrade. > I'm still not a fan of Face ID and it's fairly frequent that I'm prompted for > a passcode. I know the new gestures to replace the home button are there, but > I simply don't find them as convenient or intuitive as just pressing the home > button. Had they come out with a second generation SE, I would have snatched > that sucker up in a second. > I know Apple talks up the new gestures a lot, but I find them to be bleh and > at the very least a step back in user experience. > What I ended up doing too is to enable the assistive touch button and place > it in my dock sort of as the fifth app there. Right between the second and > third apps. > I then changed the behavior of the button so that one tap (VO double tap) > would act as the home button and a double tap (VO triple tap) would be the > control panel. With the long press and hold activating the menu for the rest > of the assistive touch options. > This for me works since I can use the XR more comfortably as a one handed > device and not bother with the swipe up gesture as the home button as I find > just tapping the assistive touch icon much faster. That and I'm lazy too I > guess. Makes unlocking the phone quicker for me as well. > > Cristóbal > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mike > Arrigo > Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 1:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: got a new toy! > > I'm actually surprised at how fast the iphone se is, for every day tasks, > it's not much slower than the XR or 8, definitely faster than the 5S. The > only thing I have noticed is that the cell reception is not quite as good in > some areas as with the 8 and XR, the SE will have less bars in some areas, > it's a great little phone, I was kind of sorry to see it discontinued even > though the technology in it was starting to show its age. > Original message: >> With my XR, I bumped my SE to my business cell since my trusty 5S was >> giving me more and more trouble. Slightly annoying that the SE's a 64 >> GB device since it's got nothing on it now, but oh well. Slowness >> aside on the 5S which is to be expected for such an old device, it >> started to act all weird on me. VO wasn't reading the phone numbers >> and often, it would automatically call people. >> The 5S has a broken volume up button, a touch ID that doesn't work and >> a rear camera that's also broken. My wife changed the battery on it >> over the summer so as a super simple internet device, it can still >> work. She's going to buy the replacement camera module ($12 or so) and >> try to fix it. We've got nothing to lose. It's already broken. >> We'll probably use it as a security camera or something. She's also >> got designs on taking it out with her to rack up more shoppkick and >> iBotta points by piggybacking off of her cell's personal hotspot. >> We're going to use that sucker for something until the wheels fall off. > >> Cristóbal > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of >> Mary Otten >> Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 8:38 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: got a new toy! > >> I also got an XR to go with my iPhone 7 Plus, which just got a nice >> new battery, thank you Apple for the rather inexpensive battery >> replacement program. > >> I retired in old iPad mini too, which I used for lots of book reading. >> So the 7+ is now taking over for that phone. I only have one working >> phone. That is just one phone line. But I think I will be set for >> several years to come with these phones and their big batteries. > >> Sent from my iPhone > >>> On Nov 8, 2018, at 8:29 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Must be nice to be rich *smile* >>> I would love an XR, I could afford one but I really just don't see >>> the need at this point and I never found much use for having more >>> than one cell phone. When I bought my current 6S Plus I first kept my >>> 5S and thought I would use it at home, for Audible and all that. I >>> quickly noticed I just never did so I sold it. > >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf >>> Of Mike Arrigo >>> Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 8:26 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: got a new toy! > >>> So, I decided to add another iphone to my collection, the Iphone XR, >>> so I have an XR, an Iphone 8 and an Iphone SE. It's a nice phone, the >>> Apple store only had one case for it which was an Otterbox. >>> Unfortunately the Mophie juice pack is not available for this phone, >>> at least not yet. I wasn't sure how easy it would be to get used to >>> not having a home button but it wasn't too bad, basically a short >>> swipe up from the bottom takes you home and a longer swipe opens the >>> app switcher. The vibrations are helpful but once you do it a few >>> times, you learn how far you must swipe up for each function. 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