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It appears that I might be the only person who thinks this is nuts, but it truly drives me insane, and I believe it started around the iPhone 7: The power butt

It appears that I might be the only person who thinks this is nuts, but it truly drives me insane, and I believe it started around the iPhone 7: The power button on the direct opposite side of the volume up button!!?? This looks nice in photos and schematics, but makes it annoyingly difficult to press one button without pressing the other. It makes it a two hand operation. That was when I realized that Apple might be focusing on the wrong things. It drives me batty to a weird level. I feel like the protagonist in the Papyrus SNL skit.

threeseed 2y ago
I assume you have a non-Pro iPhone. On the Pro models the screen is always on and so to unlock you would simply swipe up from the bottom. No button presses. We are likely to see this LTPO displays trickle down likely from the next version.
- consumer451 2y ago
  I've had nearly all of them, Plus, Pro, and non-Pro. It doesn't change the fact that if I want to turn the volume up, I am just as likely to lock the phone. I know what you did!!!
  - basch 2y ago
    holding a pro one handed, with my right hand, index finger on volume up and down, and my thumb is significantly higher than the power button. its actually uncomfortable to hold my index on volume and thumb on power at the same time. if i shift my hand for my thumb to be on the power button, my index finger is well below volume down.
    - consumer451 2y ago
      (continuing with the Papyrus sketch supposedly "insane" person mentality) I'm sorry, I am but a simple man with an opposing thumb. The term "opposing" is supposed to mean something, isn't it? What is it opposing, exactly? > It looked good on the rendering. My index finger! My thumb opposes my index finger! You have forsaken millions of years of human evolution, for a rendering??? I knoowwww what you diiiid!!!
orev 2y ago
Yes, I agree, and it’s also bothered me since they moved the power button to the side. I assume it was one of those things Steve Jobs fought against and they moved it as soon as he was gone because it looks cleaner, however there’s also an argument that as the screens got taller, it became harder to reach it. You can’t get used to it by holding the opposite side of the phone off center, but it’s still too easy to accidentally press the wrong button.

threeseed 2y ago

I assume you have a non-Pro iPhone. On the Pro models the screen is always on and so to unlock you would simply swipe up from the bottom. No button presses. We are likely to see this LTPO displays trickle down likely from the next version.

consumer451 2y ago
I've had nearly all of them, Plus, Pro, and non-Pro. It doesn't change the fact that if I want to turn the volume up, I am just as likely to lock the phone. I know what you did!!!
- basch 2y ago
  holding a pro one handed, with my right hand, index finger on volume up and down, and my thumb is significantly higher than the power button. its actually uncomfortable to hold my index on volume and thumb on power at the same time. if i shift my hand for my thumb to be on the power button, my index finger is well below volume down.
  - consumer451 2y ago
    (continuing with the Papyrus sketch supposedly "insane" person mentality) I'm sorry, I am but a simple man with an opposing thumb. The term "opposing" is supposed to mean something, isn't it? What is it opposing, exactly? > It looked good on the rendering. My index finger! My thumb opposes my index finger! You have forsaken millions of years of human evolution, for a rendering??? I knoowwww what you diiiid!!!

orev 2y ago

Yes, I agree, and it’s also bothered me since they moved the power button to the side. I assume it was one of those things Steve Jobs fought against and they moved it as soon as he was gone because it looks cleaner, however there’s also an argument that as the screens got taller, it became harder to reach it. You can’t get used to it by holding the opposite side of the phone off center, but it’s still too easy to accidentally press the wrong button.