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As an update to my previous post. I gave my wife my X yesterday, so I’m using her old 7 until my new phone arrives. In only a day it’s made me realise just how much I prefer FaceID and the swipe navigation of the X and newer devices. The home button feels clunky by comparison, admittedly some of that will be down to my not being used to it anymore. But I’m glad I’ll only have to put up with it for a few days.
 
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Same as above. I sold my XS Max last week and am using an old 6s in the mean time before my 11 comes and it has made me realize how much I miss FaceID and no home button. I find myself constantly swiping up from the bottom trying to close apps or go into multitask. The home button is very slow to me now and just not fluid/natural compared to no home button.
 
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Shirasaki said:
I am the opposite because of the horrendous home bar design that is so easy to trigger when playing games or watching movies.

Touch ID may look outdated, but Apple could’ve stuck the home bar at the bottom all the time. But they didn’t.
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This is exactly my concern about updating.
 
Nope! And I'm reminded of why I don't miss it when I have to use my work phone (iPhone 6s)!
 
davidg4781 said:
For those of you that have been using a X model for a while, do you miss the Home Button?

I’m on an 8 and considering switching to an 11 Pro but I don’t know how I’ll feel with Face ID and the new gestures. They seem to be unintuitive, but maybe that’s because I haven’t used them much.
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Nope
 
NOPE! It was a bit awkward the first couple of days (old habit of automatically reaching for it). But swiping is so natural and now I love not having it.
 
I miss touchID. Sometimes I don't think the people at Apple actually use these devices. I'm so sick of faceID trying to unlock my phone when I use it as a flashlight. I need to move around, I need to change angles and shine the light where it's needed. Don't scan my effing face while I'm doing this!! The real pièce de résistance is when I have to type in my password afterwards for having the audacity to use the flashlight feature.
 
al256 said:
I miss touchID. Sometimes I don't think the people at Apple actually use these devices. I'm so sick of faceID trying to unlock my phone when I use it as a flashlight. I need to move around, I need to change angles and shine the light where it's needed. Don't scan my effing face while I'm doing this!! The real pièce de résistance is when I have to type in my password afterwards for having the audacity to use the flashlight feature.
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I can actually appreciate that sentiment, the flashlight is something I literally use many times a day, or rather, night.

I don’t suffer from the same problem as one of the first things I disable on all of my iPhones, since my 6s+, is Raise To Wake, can’t be bothered with that battery wasting nonsense every time I pick the phone up.

So I don’t get the issue you describe, but I can certainly see how it could be annoying.

*Edit because it was my 6s+, not my 7+.
 
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I strongly disliked the home button since the original iPhone. So no, home button you have been easily forgotten and will continue to be.
 
One of my biggest reservations when going with the XS was the lack of a home button but I got used to gestures right away and wouldn't want to go back. I don't miss it at all.
 
Definitely do not.. (like most people here). Can't say I miss the virtual home button either.

Only benefit the home button had was the fingerprint sensor.
 
I was skeptical of how well FaceID would work at first upgraded to the X when it was released. But honestly I haven’t missed the home button at all. I was actually more annoyed it took longer for the iPad to ditch the home button. Immediately upgraded to the iPad Pro when it was announced.
 
al256 said:
I miss touchID. Sometimes I don't think the people at Apple actually use these devices. I'm so sick of faceID trying to unlock my phone when I use it as a flashlight. I need to move around, I need to change angles and shine the light where it's needed. Don't scan my effing face while I'm doing this!! The real pièce de résistance is when I have to type in my password afterwards for having the audacity to use the flashlight feature.
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Interesting point. I never thought I’d that.
 
Nope, took me a day using my X to get used to it.

I do agree that faceid alone is annoying. I would love a combo of faceid and touch id.
 
I never did, not even when I first got the phone. As others said, it all feels very natural, and fluid. Took me a few minutes to get used to.

the ONE thing that gets me is poorly designed apps that don't respect Apple's guidelines and won't let you swipe up or down (for control center or notifications) unless you try several times.
 
Not at all.. borrowing a friends phone to do something and they have an old phone feels ancient lol
 
CMoore515 said:
Not at all. The gesture based system is so natural. I was used to it by the end of my first day with my X, now XS Max.
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This. Using gestures is so much more fluid and quick than having to reach down and double press the Home Button.
 
al256 said:
I miss touchID. Sometimes I don't think the people at Apple actually use these devices. I'm so sick of faceID trying to unlock my phone when I use it as a flashlight. I need to move around, I need to change angles and shine the light where it's needed. Don't scan my effing face while I'm doing this!! The real pièce de résistance is when I have to type in my password afterwards for having the audacity to use the flashlight feature.
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Can't you just look at the phone when you activate the flashlight? I use the flashlight all the time and the phone unlocks so quickly I don't even notice it. The padlock stays unlocked while I use the flashlight and I just swipe up when I'm done.
 
Couldn't go back to a home button. Swiping is just way easier. I use the quick left swipe to switch between recent apps all the time.
 
johnny hotsauce said:
I don’t but my mother in law that’s tech challenged will miss it whenever the 8 phases out since that’ll probably be her next and last phone for a while.

She can’t figure out gestures, she can barely use her 6. We tried teaching her gestures on my XS Max and my wife’s X and no luck. I’ve never met anyone so technology inept, LOL.
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It never ceases to amaze me that my mother who has never used a computer before can learn and enjoy a touchscreen device. (First with an old iPod touch, then original iPad mini and now a iPhone 5c.).

The home physical button served an important purpose---- "If you get into trouble or lost, just press the home button and it will take you back to the main screen".

When iOS went towards flat icon design---that was a step backwards in my opinion for usability---my mom had to decipher the new icons.

I don't have a non-home button iPhone yet, but seeing how counter-intuitive it was just to reboot my wife's occasionally frozen iPhone X, my mom would probably ask to go back to a dumb phone.

Changes can be great and most people adapt easily, but hard earned "skills" shouldn't be discarded so easily.
 
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