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Comment by rubee64

10 hours ago

Same. Home button is sooo much better than swiping gestures

The physical home button is, no bullshit, one of the greatest pieces of UI ever. No, I am not kidding, I really think that. It’s crazy to me that they abandoned it, the gestures that replace its functionality are overall-worse and cluttering the gesture system with even more of them is bad for the overall UX.

  • Maybe you know this but it wasn't a physical button since i think iphone 7 - it was a haptic sensor.

    • The haptic sensor is almost as good as the physical button, and the trade off of not having to worry about it breaking (which was likely after a few years with the physical ones) is well worth it for me.

    • True, and in my opinion it was a worse experience than the previous physical one.