As a one handed user I find this feature useful. Sometimes I think people like me with only one hand have a forgotten disability ; most people who think of physical disability think of wheelchair users, but people with upper limb disabilities exist as well.
What is even more exciting is that Apple has insured Accessibility out of the box, even for people with a print disability. I need no help setting up my phone out of the box. I use a feature called voice over under Accessibility. Stop assuming, yes, I am blind and I can use my phone just like anybody else thanks to this feature 👍
When I first switched from android to iPhone, I accidentally used this so many times and I was really annoyed by it. Now that I’ve gotten used to it, it’s the most convenient little extra touch I’ve ever used on a phone
You can make your display smaller by swiping down on android. Plus it shows the full screen instead of cutting off half the screen. Its much better than the iphone
Honestly, I’ve always preferred the smaller phones just so that it’s easier to use one handed. That’s pretty cool to find out that Steve Jobs kept iPhones small for so long for that reason, I never knew that. My hands aren’t small or even smaller than most people, just average for a 20-something person. But I still found myself using reachability often. I just got a 13 pro max a few days ago to continue photography with, and I have to say I was really nervous about the size of it. I don’t prefer larger phones for the same reason mentioned in the video - being cumbersome. But it’s actually not bad. Reachability continues to bring the screen down far enough that I can still reach things. I have to stretch my hand a just tiny bit, but that’s still not bad. 😁
Totally the first problem with larger screens...thankful to these shrinking screen feature and Google's keyboard has that floating feature too recently found that side bar thing as well. Android user here so no experience of iOS. But totally appreciate this. Kudos!!
Even with my iPhone 12 Mini, I still find this feature incredibly useful, as sometimes, even with such a small display, I find some buttons to be slightly out of reach. Very handy.
I've been using this feature for years, especially when I'm in bed recovering from a hangover and too tired and messed up to type with two hands. It's the first thing I searched for when Apple ditched the original home button. I love the feature, it's even better then tapping the home button twice. BTW I think they also mentioned it in their Keynote when delivering the first iPhone without home button.
@Donny Araujo You can find it in accessibility. It’s called ‘Reachability’. Settings -> Accessibility -> Touch -> Reachability. It will help you on those messed up hangover days.
Holy crap! Thanks so much for explaining this- I always thought it was a bug and found it annoying. However, I'll often find myself adjusting the phone while using it one-handed, so now I can actually use it as a feature, or even turn it off! So thankful for this video.
As cool and smooth as apple's implementation was, i feel like samsung's one handed mode felt much more comfortable to use. instead of shrinking to become a square, the screen would shrink to a corner, but keep the aspect ratio, allowing the phone to still be used normally instead of a weirdly squished display in my opinion.
and its pretty easy too, all you need to do is swipe from (or too? i cant remember) the corner and it activates, and then you just tap outside to go back, you can also press a button to switch what side its on.
Accessibility software on all platforms is something great and I am glad that it is being noticed. 15 years ago I attended my first workshop on accessibility software and was amazed with a lot of the technologies of the time. At that time when I thought of accessibility software I only thought of screen readers like JAWS or Orca. Now there’s a variety of software, fonts, and hardware that makes computing accessible. This also comes to Mmmm s that we need to make our websites and applications more accessible and that should be the focus.
I never found reachability to be that intuitive, especially with the newer iPhones without the home button. It’s the reason why I use a 13 mini because it’s small enough for me to use without reachability for my hands, and I’ll be sad to see the mini be discontinued in next year’s iPhone line up.
You can't trust leaks, especially when they're an entire YEAR ahead. if apple cared about poor sales they wouldn't have upgraded the ipod touch, nor would they have made the iphone 13 mini in the first place.
One UI implementation is far more intelligent and practical, the screen is reduced diagonally instead of just vertically, which allows you to use your phone completely instead of a limited operation that you get on the iphone's one handed mode
How often do you actually need to reach the top though? I don't need the whole thing to shrink (making smaller objects harder to press) i just need to tap something at the top of the screen.
I remember when I first discovered this on accident on my iPhone 6 three years ago. I literally thought it was a strange bug that kept happening over and over but after I found out it’s actually a feature, I immediately turned it off and never used it again haha. I don’t even need it on the big iPhone 11 screen I have now. Still, very nice for people that actually need and use this feature 👌🏼
It’s sad that a video like this is needed because most people have no idea about “one handed use”, and how this feature helps I’ve been a big advocate for one-handed usability since the beginning
@@mikemcklieve bro android phones are amazing nowadays and more value for money. I am not saying that apple phones are better than android flagships. But iPhones are great.
@@aksingh3167 that's not the point.. your original comments made it sounds like Apple is innovating but they ain't. Im using Iphone since 4s. I love the camera but not the company
@@mikemcklieve android is cheaper , because they sell your data (except Samsung , but Samsung’s high end models aren’t cheap either ). iPhone makes only 10-20% profit . I rather have privacy , than my data being sold. At the end iPhone is not overprice , that’s just how much it really costs.
I actually had to use this feature for some time when the top half of my phone screen was unresponsive to any touch. It’s also been useful when I’ve had one hand full and needed to access something at the top of my screen
@@weed6212 mmm but when you actually want a bigger screen like for watching TH-cam or playing games you won't have it. so i'll buy my bigger phone and let the software do it's job.
I love that feature. That’s how you see apple is very detailed in his things. They didn’t just make a large screen phone. They thought about how it should remain one-hand use for consumers.
iPhones are really great phones Performance wise and Appearance but the price is a bit high and isn't an affordable price for most people out there. Would be great if they think about the price and decrease it, they might even sell more phones than they do right now and gain more profit!
This is one of the best feature I love in iPhone as many apps doesn't support the back swipe gesture and the moving back to previous screen becomes difficult with one handed use.
Never knew this existed! Really handy, I’ve always been kind of annoyed by how large phones have gotten. My only complaint now is that sometimes swiping down triggers a notification menu instead of the drop down.
I recently became an iphone user and I actually like it. One thing I wish ios had similar to android (maybe only pixel) is the "back" gesture. In pixel when you swipe from left to right or right to left it goes one page back no matter what app you are on. Most ios apps these days do that but as soon as you go a few layers in you cant swipe back anymore but instead bring the page down and press the back icon. it'd be great to see apple adding that gesture feature. The drop down make up for it but it'd be great to have both.
as an iPhone user since the 3GS version, I've seen this happen to me so many times and this's the first time I understand why is it happening, thanks for explaining this.
Thanks for explaining the situation. I felt foolish to go to the Genius Bar and ask about something I didn’t understand. Now that I know it’s not a bug, or that I did something wrong, I can use this feature to assist with my tendon problem.
Wow I can’t believe that so many people didn’t know about this feature until now, I remember when they introduced this feature back in 2014 with iPhone 6 Plus .
As a person with small palms I find this feature extremely useful. I was nvr a fan of big displays Apple with small screens was what I always loved. But now iphones with such larger displays to compete with its competitors was actually annoying to me. This feature is lifeline for persons with little palms
I actually was taught about this feature when I was just simply visiting the Apple Store and a lady worker randomly taught me that neat trick. I still use it to this day thanks to her!
So like half of the screen stopped working on the top half of my old phone like a few weeks ago, and this came in so handy, it saved me for so long until my old phones touch screen didn’t work completely
What an informative video, I didn’t know I needed this. After only using iPhones for two years I never knew why they did this. But now I do. Kind of smart now that I think about it. Thanks!
I've been using this feature all the way back in 2013/2014 with Windows phone but the One UI version is arguably the best implementation of this feature.
This features has been around for quite sometime. It worked since the iPhone 6 and onwards. You can Double Touch the home button to have the top screen dropped down. Why I say it’s Double Touch? Because you only have to hover ur fingers touching the sensors of the home button. Because if you actually Tap them twice, it will only get you to the multi-task windows. Pretty well thought of
I’ve never noticed this feature. Sure, I’ve realized that it goes down, but I’ve never really discovered what it’s supposed to be used for. I am going to be using this a lot more often now that I am on winter break and have more time to do things in bed or have things in my hand while using my phone. Thank you for giving us an explanation for this or I probably wouldn’t have known what to do.
I remember seeing an HTC back in the Verizon store years ago. It was huge and the first I had ever seen one that big..almost ridiculous. But today it’s pretty much standard and anything smaller is a joke.
Android had this feature long time too, by swipe your finger from the home button to the right or the left to shrink all the displayed content to the side you chose. I had xiaomi phones for the last 4 years and they copied the feature exactly like in iOS by swiping down from the home bar.
I just switched to IPhone 13 pro. It's my first ever apple device and it's the best thing I've ever bought in my life. It's so perfect, it can literally do everything
It’s impossible for the notch to cover a button though. There’s a safe area apps must use and if one puts something behind the notch it won’t get approved for the App Store
I always wondered why it did that. As for Android phones, I couldn’t care less about the bigger display. I switched to Apple because there just wasn’t enough storage on Android. Everyone says oh, you can add cards. But the only thing you could put on the cards was music and pictures. I want space for apps, not music and pictures. I don’t know if Samsung has changed that because you couldn’t pay me to own a Samsung anything, no matter what features it has!
you can add apps to cards if you enable dev mode, your device should be fine as long as the only apps you put are socials and medias, like snapchat, insta, twitter, netflix, hulu and stuff like that, but I would understand staying with iPhone.
Staying with iPhone is fine but the reasons you listed aren't right. Storage capabilities are definitely better for Android, you just gotta tinker with it a little. But I know not everyone's into that.
1:34 hey look its my 7 year old phone Edit 3/17/2022: its broken now and im now using an iphone 4s Edit 13/2/2024: I got a pixel 7 on June 30 2023 it's so good
I know what this feature is. I know why it was implemented. I still watched the video purely because I enjoyed listening to this man explain it to me. Thank you
Ohhh thanks for sharing this! I’m always annoyed by it and frustrated that all the phones these days are so huge. I had to switch from an iPhone 5S to an XR.
To save you 2:34 minutes of your time, the reason why the screen drops is so users can reach to the top elements of the phone if they're holding the phone in a specific position. 12/24/21
I use that feature every single day and I’m surprised that people don’t know what this is. It’s incredibly useful while on the street, when your hands are busy and all that. Like Assistive Touch in the Apple Watch.
Annoying as all get out when I’m playing a game. Never happened before and like many things on my 12 here lately, settings have been changing themselves. Thanks for the video.
Ohhhhh I never actually knew this. I always didn’t think that it was a bug but I wasn’t sure because I rarely saw a video talking about this trick thanks for talking about this!
Additionally, if you’re watching this on your phone you can swipe up on a TH-cam video that’s playing and it will full screen. Swipe down and it will go back small. Very handy.
I knew what it was for, but after the home button became nonexistent I never found out how I was accidentally activating it! This is very helpful, thanks. Maybe I can start intentionally using the feature again.
I always use this drop down feature on my XS max and now on my 15 plus... A lot of people dont understand why the feature even exist but me, I appreciate it a lot. Thank you Jobs! I wish some Android phone had this feature which would work as smootly as on IOS.
As a one handed user I find this feature useful. Sometimes I think people like me with only one hand have a forgotten disability ; most people who think of physical disability think of wheelchair users, but people with upper limb disabilities exist as well.
TECHNOBLADEEEE
Facts.
What is even more exciting is that Apple has insured Accessibility out of the box, even for people with a print disability. I need no help setting up my phone out of the box. I use a feature called voice over under Accessibility.
Stop assuming, yes, I am blind and I can use my phone just like anybody else thanks to this feature 👍
Lmao thee isheep actin like Androids don't do it
@@mister-Kayne that’s cool I didn’t know you could do that.
As an Android user I would say that Apple's attention to detail is incredible in their software
The same feature now comes in Pixel's Android 12 natively.
As an android user, I would say that this feature comes with my pixel 4a.
@@Sr1njan nice
@@dreamsider android had this feature for a long time, the only difference is that android's one looks different.
@@dreamsider nah ios copies Android. Features that come to Android always come late to iOS like dark theme etc
When I first switched from android to iPhone, I accidentally used this so many times and I was really annoyed by it. Now that I’ve gotten used to it, it’s the most convenient little extra touch I’ve ever used on a phone
It's in my A50 Too I discovered it accidentally 😂
@@spaxergaming3854 same too lol
You can make your display smaller by swiping down on android. Plus it shows the full screen instead of cutting off half the screen. Its much better than the iphone
im sorry for your loss
Yeah bitsh
Honestly, I’ve always preferred the smaller phones just so that it’s easier to use one handed. That’s pretty cool to find out that Steve Jobs kept iPhones small for so long for that reason, I never knew that. My hands aren’t small or even smaller than most people, just average for a 20-something person. But I still found myself using reachability often. I just got a 13 pro max a few days ago to continue photography with, and I have to say I was really nervous about the size of it. I don’t prefer larger phones for the same reason mentioned in the video - being cumbersome. But it’s actually not bad. Reachability continues to bring the screen down far enough that I can still reach things. I have to stretch my hand a just tiny bit, but that’s still not bad. 😁
Totally the first problem with larger screens...thankful to these shrinking screen feature and Google's keyboard has that floating feature too recently found that side bar thing as well.
Android user here so no experience of iOS. But totally appreciate this. Kudos!!
Even with my iPhone 12 Mini, I still find this feature incredibly useful, as sometimes, even with such a small display, I find some buttons to be slightly out of reach. Very handy.
Fr? 😂
Ayo..
why are the other replies so questioning?
...seriously?
u got baby hands or something??
I've been using this feature for years, especially when I'm in bed recovering from a hangover and too tired and messed up to type with two hands. It's the first thing I searched for when Apple ditched the original home button. I love the feature, it's even better then tapping the home button twice. BTW I think they also mentioned it in their Keynote when delivering the first iPhone without home button.
@Donny Araujo You can find it in accessibility. It’s called ‘Reachability’. Settings -> Accessibility -> Touch -> Reachability. It will help you on those messed up hangover days.
@Donny Araujo You’re welcome 😊👍🏻
I think that you can get reachability using backtap on non-home button iphones
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Holy crap! Thanks so much for explaining this- I always thought it was a bug and found it annoying. However, I'll often find myself adjusting the phone while using it one-handed, so now I can actually use it as a feature, or even turn it off! So thankful for this video.
u thought it was a bug?
Why would it be a bug
…..
The sad thing is that are188 other dumb people. HOW IS THIS A BUG? Its obvious its a feature!!!! C’mon, its 2022, let start use out brains.
@@orte94 “let start use out brains” think someone does need to start using their brains😂
As cool and smooth as apple's implementation was, i feel like samsung's one handed mode felt much more comfortable to use. instead of shrinking to become a square, the screen would shrink to a corner, but keep the aspect ratio, allowing the phone to still be used normally instead of a weirdly squished display in my opinion.
I’ve seen my brother use it like that too but it was another android phone idk which one
@@cptmario lol its such a small thing to say fk apple on
and its pretty easy too, all you need to do is swipe from (or too? i cant remember) the corner and it activates, and then you just tap outside to go back, you can also press a button to switch what side its on.
I have an iPhone 6s rn and I always wondered why the screen always kept going down, now I know why, thank you
The first time I encountered the screen by accident, I wasn't sure if it was the one-handed mode. So thanks for clearing things up
What the fuck
Girl this feature has been around since the 6 surprised some people don’t know this “secret” feature
@@cameronleerodriguez Who me?
@Mr_Jj_Gamer who
Very useful when your screen is broken as well. gg apple
Hi PRG!
yeah
Android already has this feature.
@@shaheersks1 🤓🤓
@@shaheersks1 apple had it long ass time ago
But idk which had first
Accessibility software on all platforms is something great and I am glad that it is being noticed. 15 years ago I attended my first workshop on accessibility software and was amazed with a lot of the technologies of the time. At that time when I thought of accessibility software I only thought of screen readers like JAWS or Orca. Now there’s a variety of software, fonts, and hardware that makes computing accessible. This also comes to Mmmm s that we need to make our websites and applications more accessible and that should be the focus.
He finally gets to the point at 2:00
Plus literally everyone already knows why
😂
I have iPhone 11 Max and I’m so excited about this! I love the larger screen but not the reach when only using one hand. Thanks!
I never found reachability to be that intuitive, especially with the newer iPhones without the home button. It’s the reason why I use a 13 mini because it’s small enough for me to use without reachability for my hands, and I’ll be sad to see the mini be discontinued in next year’s iPhone line up.
I don’t think they will discontinue it tbh.
You can't trust leaks, especially when they're an entire YEAR ahead. if apple cared about poor sales they wouldn't have upgraded the ipod touch, nor would they have made the iphone 13 mini in the first place.
@@Freddoda guess I’ll go buy the new iPod then. Oh wait…
i never found ios in general intuitive
@@michelbruns In what way?
One UI implementation is far more intelligent and practical, the screen is reduced diagonally instead of just vertically, which allows you to use your phone completely instead of a limited operation that you get on the iphone's one handed mode
Screen reduction was a thing literally back in 2015 One UI didn’t do shit
@@krispyhd9484 Call it TouchWiz then. It's the same codebase, just a different name.
Yeah, the One UI implementation is perfect.
I have a LG G8s and it has the same implementation as the iPhone and it sucks.
the only thing i frustated with one ui is battery consumption during idle/sleep times
How often do you actually need to reach the top though? I don't need the whole thing to shrink (making smaller objects harder to press) i just need to tap something at the top of the screen.
I remember when I first discovered this on accident on my iPhone 6 three years ago. I literally thought it was a strange bug that kept happening over and over but after I found out it’s actually a feature, I immediately turned it off and never used it again haha.
I don’t even need it on the big iPhone 11 screen I have now.
Still, very nice for people that actually need and use this feature 👌🏼
Hope you change phones tho. The 11 and the xr are scrap
@@leroysparkz if their phone works for them why would they need to change it? Thats just wasteful.
@@leroysparkz no they’re not 💀 I’m using an 11 and it works just fine
Lol. Sure. Every phone works just fine. But I’d rather go for the xs or xs max. The 11 is a bad recommendation for me.
@@leroysparkz Let people have the phones they want man.
It’s sad that a video like this is needed because most people have no idea about “one handed use”, and how this feature helps
I’ve been a big advocate for one-handed usability since the beginning
Not even gonna lie, it did NOT have to take 2 minutes to explain this😐
For real, the first minute and thirty was entirely unnecessary
Using my first iphone for 2 months, and one thing I can say that is Apple really does works on details, and also optimization is just too good.
Apple not only stole it from others, but they did it worse. Or u just simply compare it with 200 dollars phone with flagship?
@@mikemcklieve bro android phones are amazing nowadays and more value for money. I am not saying that apple phones are better than android flagships. But iPhones are great.
android users are clowns 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
@@aksingh3167 that's not the point.. your original comments made it sounds like Apple is innovating but they ain't. Im using Iphone since 4s. I love the camera but not the company
@@mikemcklieve android is cheaper , because they sell your data (except Samsung , but Samsung’s high end models aren’t cheap either ). iPhone makes only 10-20% profit . I rather have privacy , than my data being sold. At the end iPhone is not overprice , that’s just how much it really costs.
I actually had to use this feature for some time when the top half of my phone screen was unresponsive to any touch. It’s also been useful when I’ve had one hand full and needed to access something at the top of my screen
I honestly love this feature, is super handy, people missing one arm thank you Steve !!!
My guy explained Apples and some of andriods history in just 2minutes and 34 seconds
MASSICE RESPECT👏🏼
I just paused this video using this feature. Thank you, you have changed my life!
I prefer Samsung's One-Handed mode, at least for me it's more convenient since it literally reduces the whole screen to a smaller version.
Same! And the fact you can choose if the shrunken screen appears on the left or right makes it even better :)
Non apple phones are much better for the DIYers. Apple Is great for the technophobes.
At that point just buy a smaller phone 🤣😭
@@weed6212 mmm but when you actually want a bigger screen like for watching TH-cam or playing games you won't have it. so i'll buy my bigger phone and let the software do it's job.
I love that feature. That’s how you see apple is very detailed in his things. They didn’t just make a large screen phone. They thought about how it should remain one-hand use for consumers.
did they
If you tried it it’s actually not very intuitive. The feature is just there just for the sake of saying it’s there, it wasnt one of their priorities
@@joanaddict or its just there because its a good feature??? why do people feel inclined to complain about something useful
iPhones are really great phones Performance wise and Appearance but the price is a bit high and isn't an affordable price for most people out there. Would be great if they think about the price and decrease it, they might even sell more phones than they do right now and gain more profit!
They start at $399. I doubt they can get much lower than that without sacrificing performance and quality like budget android phones do.
This is one of the best feature I love in iPhone as many apps doesn't support the back swipe gesture and the moving back to previous screen becomes difficult with one handed use.
Never knew this existed! Really handy, I’ve always been kind of annoyed by how large phones have gotten. My only complaint now is that sometimes swiping down triggers a notification menu instead of the drop down.
Thanks for the information, now that I know how to use it, it won’t bother me anymore 👌🏻😊
I recently became an iphone user and I actually like it. One thing I wish ios had similar to android (maybe only pixel) is the "back" gesture. In pixel when you swipe from left to right or right to left it goes one page back no matter what app you are on. Most ios apps these days do that but as soon as you go a few layers in you cant swipe back anymore but instead bring the page down and press the back icon. it'd be great to see apple adding that gesture feature. The drop down make up for it but it'd be great to have both.
Welcome to iPhone! Hope you enjoy it :) soon there will be features like that watch!
A sad desicion
i can swipe my home bar to the right and it takes me back to my previous app
i also had that problem when i first switched from android to iphone, but i’ve gotten used to it so i don’t even notice it anymore
Been using iPhones for 3 years now and never realized this. Actually super helpful. Thanks man, u won a subscriber 🙏
I feel truly sorry for the people who needed an explanation video on this.
as an iPhone user since the 3GS version, I've seen this happen to me so many times and this's the first time I understand why is it happening, thanks for explaining this.
How can you not have the urge to try something new, iphone user since 15 years what a boring human unbelievable
@@xX_Qu1ckSc0peZzHD_Xx how can you not have the urge to try something new, pepsi fan since 15 years what a boring human unbelievable
@@purrpixelvevo I tried CocaCola dont worry
@@xX_Qu1ckSc0peZzHD_Xx honestly, while i disagree with your opinions on phones i do approve of your taste in soda
I learn something new with this phone almost daily lmao, this happened a couple times and I had no idea why.
@Johnny Rep Yup, I turned it off after watching
Merry Christmas everyone have a happy new year!
Somebody once told me merry Christmas
Thanks for explaining the situation. I felt foolish to go to the Genius Bar and ask about something I didn’t understand. Now that I know it’s not a bug, or that I did something wrong, I can use this feature to assist with my tendon problem.
Wow I can’t believe that so many people didn’t know about this feature until now, I remember when they introduced this feature back in 2014 with iPhone 6 Plus .
After little over a year of not knowing why it did this(or really how it did it), I finally see an answer. Thank you!
Finally, after years dealing with this, I found an answer. Thank you.
As a person with small palms I find this feature extremely useful. I was nvr a fan of big displays
Apple with small screens was what I always loved. But now iphones with such larger displays to compete with its competitors was actually annoying to me. This feature is lifeline for persons with little palms
I actually was taught about this feature when I was just simply visiting the Apple Store and a lady worker randomly taught me that neat trick. I still use it to this day thanks to her!
So like half of the screen stopped working on the top half of my old phone like a few weeks ago, and this came in so handy, it saved me for so long until my old phones touch screen didn’t work completely
What an informative video, I didn’t know I needed this. After only using iPhones for two years I never knew why they did this. But now I do. Kind of smart now that I think about it. Thanks!
Me: *Swipes down on home bar* “Holy shit!!!”
I've been using this feature all the way back in 2013/2014 with Windows phone but the One UI version is arguably the best implementation of this feature.
0:22 And now iPhones are the size of a semi hauling cattle
iphone 5s on its time is still a beast, camera quality is so similar to what u can get on budget phones these days. amazing
This features has been around for quite sometime. It worked since the iPhone 6 and onwards. You can Double Touch the home button to have the top screen dropped down. Why I say it’s Double Touch? Because you only have to hover ur fingers touching the sensors of the home button. Because if you actually Tap them twice, it will only get you to the multi-task windows. Pretty well thought of
I’ve never noticed this feature. Sure, I’ve realized that it goes down, but I’ve never really discovered what it’s supposed to be used for. I am going to be using this a lot more often now that I am on winter break and have more time to do things in bed or have things in my hand while using my phone. Thank you for giving us an explanation for this or I probably wouldn’t have known what to do.
I remember seeing an HTC back in the Verizon store years ago. It was huge and the first I had ever seen one that big..almost ridiculous. But today it’s pretty much standard and anything smaller is a joke.
Android had this feature long time too, by swipe your finger from the home button to the right or the left to shrink all the displayed content to the side you chose.
I had xiaomi phones for the last 4 years and they copied the feature exactly like in iOS by swiping down from the home bar.
Thanks for the video. I wondered what the issue was. So glad they forced that feature on everyone. Not. Thanks for showing us how to turn it off
Thank you, i didn't know why this feature exsisted, and didn't actually know what i did to the screen to activate it. Will use it now!
Perfect explanation as always but the Galaxy S3 only had a 4.8" display
Thank you, Steve Jobs, for giving me meaning in my life.
I don't know if either this comment got lost in translation or you purposefully exaggerated it to attract attention to your channel
@@kaan8964 what does that have to do with his channel
R.I.P The god Steve Jobs 😢
Pretty neat. I’m a one handed user myself I guess. I always go for the smaller iPhones. I wonder how well this works on the pro max models
I just switched to IPhone 13 pro. It's my first ever apple device and it's the best thing I've ever bought in my life. It's so perfect, it can literally do everything
After years of only having home-button iPhones I just got a new 13 Pro. I didn’t know this feature was still available or how to access it. Thanks!
ah yes as an android user this is very useful information
It is interesting for me, tho
You are literally watching a channel called apple explained what do you expect lmfao
I bet you’re fun at parties.
@@phoebem5226 that's....why I am here
Android has had this feature for years.
I thought it was in case the notch blocked a button. You learn something everyday i guess :)
It’s impossible for the notch to cover a button though. There’s a safe area apps must use and if one puts something behind the notch it won’t get approved for the App Store
It literally happened to me while I saw this video in my feed lmao
You’re here answering questions I didn’t know I had
these are the type of questions i don’t wonder or think about but want to know when it’s brought up 😂
Nice video! Keep up the good work.
I always wondered why it did that. As for Android phones, I couldn’t care less about the bigger display. I switched to Apple because there just wasn’t enough storage on Android. Everyone says oh, you can add cards. But the only thing you could put on the cards was music and pictures. I want space for apps, not music and pictures. I don’t know if Samsung has changed that because you couldn’t pay me to own a Samsung anything, no matter what features it has!
you can add apps to cards if you enable dev mode, your device should be fine as long as the only apps you put are socials and medias, like snapchat, insta, twitter, netflix, hulu and stuff like that, but I would understand staying with iPhone.
Staying with iPhone is fine but the reasons you listed aren't right. Storage capabilities are definitely better for Android, you just gotta tinker with it a little. But I know not everyone's into that.
@@gjeraldh2989 iphone users being dumb is not new
1:34 hey look its my 7 year old phone
Edit 3/17/2022: its broken now and im now using an iphone 4s
Edit 13/2/2024: I got a pixel 7 on June 30 2023 it's so good
oof
@@realneonbluegamer LOL 6 MONTHS AGO I GOT A PIXEL 7
@@SKYGamingYT1any updated?
@@mrfoxyx yes actually let me edit one sec
I know what this feature is. I know why it was implemented. I still watched the video purely because I enjoyed listening to this man explain it to me. Thank you
This was an amazing short video. Thank you.
Title should be: "Why The phone's Screen Drops Down" cuz my samsung could do that too many years ago, lol.
The iPhone 5, 5s and SE were my favorite iPhones.
5S for me until the 13 Pro took it’s place haha
I’m typing this right now on a 1st gen SE
Nowadays phones are just too big my hand pains when I'm trying to watch TH-cam while sleeping
It should be a little smaller
Ohhh thanks for sharing this! I’m always annoyed by it and frustrated that all the phones these days are so huge. I had to switch from an iPhone 5S to an XR.
Thank you, I’ve wondered this for YEARS!!!
Simplified, it’s so small handed people could reach the top of the screen
To save you 2:34 minutes of your time, the reason why the screen drops is so users can reach to the top elements of the phone if they're holding the phone in a specific position.
12/24/21
And you do it by either double tapping the home button, or pulling down on the home bar
i thought everyone know this already
Some people think its a glitch
I love the smaller screen size of the 13 mini, I'm glad it is an option in this day and age of larger phablet sized phones.
I didn’t search for this video but I’m real glad it was suggested!
I love this channel, and it basically answers every question I have about my iPhone and iPad.
As an android user, I am so jealous. never seen this before... :(
Bruh android has better one handed mode
one hand mode
@@ashujeh there's something called sarcasm
Samsung has it, idk for other android phones .
@@davidwarner1728 FOR REALLL!!!
Who dont have an iPhone but still watching 😂
Me.
Yo siempre pensé que era un bug que sólo mi iPhone tenía XD
Since I have small hands, big phones aren’t easy to handle for me when only using one hand so this is actually a good feature and I love to use it!
I always wondered if it was so you could 2 things opened at once but now it makes a lot more sense
I use that feature every single day and I’m surprised that people don’t know what this is. It’s incredibly useful while on the street, when your hands are busy and all that. Like Assistive Touch in the Apple Watch.
First time I’ve heard someone talk about this since the iPhone 6 press conference
I had the first model, the 5s and now SE. All because I like the fact that I can use it with one hand
One handed mode has been around on iPhone and Android phones for so long, surprised people thought it was a "bug"
Annoying as all get out when I’m playing a game. Never happened before and like many things on my 12 here lately, settings have been changing themselves. Thanks for the video.
Ohhhhh I never actually knew this. I always didn’t think that it was a bug but I wasn’t sure because I rarely saw a video talking about this trick thanks for talking about this!
Additionally, if you’re watching this on your phone you can swipe up on a TH-cam video that’s playing and it will full screen. Swipe down and it will go back small. Very handy.
For anyone who wants to turn off the feature all you have to do is go to settings, accessibility, touch, and then turn off reachability.
I’m so glad I found this video I have an iPhone 6s and I often use it with one hand but it’s difficult to reach to the top now I can do this thank you
This has always annoyed the crap out of me and I had no idea you could turn it off. Thank you, it's now off on my phone.
I knew what it was for, but after the home button became nonexistent I never found out how I was accidentally activating it! This is very helpful, thanks. Maybe I can start intentionally using the feature again.
Bro honestly I hated that accessibility feature up until now finally knowing what its function was 👏🏽
I've been wondering this question for a couple years now, finally I know now
Mind blown. Finally get why it's there, and it totally makes sense
I always use this drop down feature on my XS max and now on my 15 plus... A lot of people dont understand why the feature even exist but me, I appreciate it a lot. Thank you Jobs! I wish some Android phone had this feature which would work as smootly as on IOS.