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I had a colleague recently who handed me his iPhone ( a 5, I think. Tall and skinny. ) and asked me to look-up some astronomical data while he was busy. Not h
by dingaling 11y ago
I had a colleague recently who handed me his iPhone ( a 5, I think. Tall and skinny. ) and asked me to look-up some astronomical data while he was busy.
Not having used one before, I can say the the interface is far from intuitive. I couldn't find the way to switch between running apps, I kept having to go back to the home screen and hit the app's icon.
I've just searched now out of interest and apparently I should have swiped four-fingers to the left. How is that in any way discoverable? Or even easy to do when walking.
- scott_karana 11y agoFYI, double-tapping the Home button shows you a list of recent applications. That would be the most commonly used way of switching apps, and it's one of the first tips that is shown to a user on a "new" phone by the OS. Four finger swiping is an optional feature that power users can turn on. Discoverability is still a valid issue, of course.
- snowwrestler 11y ago> I couldn't find the way to switch between running apps, I kept having to go back to the home screen and hit the app's icon. That is the way to switch between running apps. There are slightly faster ways to do it, but they do exactly the same thing, functionally. This is why people say that the Apple interface is intuitive: you actually were able to accomplish your goal first try with no instruction.