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Hold your phone. Where does your index finger sit?
by godelski 1y ago
Hold your phone. Where does your index finger sit?
- stavros 1y agoAre we talking about holding the phone, or about taking it out of my pocket? Because, for the latter, my fingers are on the sides, including on the power button.
- SoftTalker 1y agoThe side buttons on my phone are more of an annoyance I think. I'm constantly pressing them inadvertently, and rarely use them intentionally. The most common thing in my Photos folder are accidental screenshots (yes I do go back and delete them periodically).
- stavros 1y agoMe too, but for the purpose of unlocking, they're great. That's basically the only thing you can't do accidentally with them.
- Findecanor 1y agoPeople hold it differently then, I suppose. The fingerprint reader on the back of my Pixel 4a never worked reliably for unlocking, and was too sensitive for scrolling. It scrolled so often when I did not want it to, and I could find no setting to turn it off, so I eventually put a piece of aluminium tape over it to block it.
- godelski 1y agoYour index finger is on the side? I have pretty big hands and long fingers, that's not how I hold my phone. I'm a bit weird and do pinky on button, three fingers in back, then thumb has ample room to navigate around the bottom half
- stavros 1y agoNo, my thumb is on the side, on the power button.
- godelski 1y agoWell my original question was where your index finger was, not your thumb
- stavros 1y agoThe original topic was about unlocking your phone while taking it out of your pocket, which is done with the thumb.
- totallykvothe 1y agoIs your thumb the only place you have a fingerprint? I used my index finger on my Pixel 2
- stavros 1y agoOn the power button? How was that comfortable for you?
- terribleperson 1y agoI use my index finger on the rear scanner on the...S9+, I think? Works fine.
- stavros 1y agoAre you guys pulling my leg? The original post said "I wish they still made phones with scanners at the back, I hate FaceID", and my reply was "if you don't mind side scanners, which allow you to do the thing you miss (unlocking the phone while taking it out of your pocket), they still make those".
- stronglikedan 1y agoI'd say you're in the minority then and most people would have their fingers on the front and back while pulling it out due to pocket physics (they don't get wider, but they get deeper).
- lawn 1y agoThe thumb works well enough with the finger print scanner to the side IMHO.