Why on God’s green earth can I not have an #iPhone interface that works?
To say that Apple’s “gestures” suck is entirely too kind. They are a fundamentally broken idea anyway, but that gestures have regions and therefore that a gesture may mean any of three different things, makes my phone desperate–and I do mean desperate–to do anything other than what I’m telling it to do.
Whoever said “there’s no such thing as a wrong opinion” never encountered a post like yours.
Touch-screen gestures are the best part of having a touch screen, and Apple’s implementation of such gestures is so well-received it’s been licensed and borrowed and imitated by all of its rivals.
I can’t imagine having a touch screen without swipe to scroll / pinch to zoom / press-and-hold for pop-ups, and so on.
It completely eliminates the need for physical buttons or on-screen real estate being covered by fake buttons.
All that being said, have you explored iOS’s robust Accessibility features? Geared toward people with limited abilities / handicaps, you can modify how some gestures respond and even add on-screen buttons in some ways. It might be worth checking out.
The pinch to zoom and scrolling features generally work fine. I did explore the accessibility features and found nothing that addresses my need for easy predictability.
The reason I like the buttons is because I know what they do. And they do it every time.
The reason I hate the gestures is that I’ll think I’m doing one thing and get something completely different, often when I needed it to do the right thing five seconds ago.
What specific gestures are you talking about?
To be honest, the gestures for notification center and control center are terrible. At times I am still doubting which one does which, and control center should be way easier to reach (and I am on a mini), reachability requires too many steps and reaching for the top left is quite a stretch.
I think a combination of both of them like Android is a better option.