Hacker News Reader

Comment by hemmert | Hacker News Reader

On my iPhone SE, it is also well-spaced and perfectly cropped, omitting the 'copy' row and perfectly finishing below the second line of icons.

(I actually have a PhD in human-computer interaction and I'm a professor for UX design. It took me a two days to figure out where all those functions, which somehow appeared to be accessible 'only through apps' (or people ;)), went. Oh well...)

View on HN

Eventually, they will remove the display from iPhones entirely, reducing them to a transparent touchscreen that speaks to you in whirs and beeps through your AirPods. Then even the touchscreen will be removed, to be replaced by a LIDAR chip mounted around your belt buckle. The design of the Great Wizards of Old will have come to fruition, and men will call forth driving directions and Amazon orders using mystic incantations and vigorous, unnatural hand movements.

And people think WH40K is silly.

Look at us trying to appease the machine spirits.

> Eventually, they will remove the display from iPhones entirely, reducing them to a transparent touchscreen that speaks to you in whirs and beeps through your AirPods.

This function is already available (with the minor difference that it speaks to you using, you know, words and stuff). It's called VoiceOver. It's designed for blind users.

Eventually we'll be forced to have chips implanted in our brains as babies where we can communicate with the giant computer in the sky which can also regulate gland secretions.

Weird — on my SE the "copy" row is only half-visible at the bottom so it's clear that I can scroll.

On my SE I also have only two rows, no menu entries. (1)

I've also wondered where the functionality went.

Without this article I would never know that it's actually there but hidden.

Somehow I feel really bad about that.

-----

1) I don't remember if I've tried to adjust the font size. My pet peeve regarding that is the font in the Notes app which has a and o similar enough to allow false reading of anything that is not plain common words.

Huh. As I told another commenter, I don't remember ever changing my font size, but it's possible that I did and forgot.

I took screenshots of my share sheet[0] and my text size settings[1].

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/PNH8zKk.jpg

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/Y07lEQE.jpg

Do you have a non-standard font size? If not, maybe OP does.

I don't remember ever changing my font size, but it's possible that I did and forgot.

I took screenshots of my share sheet[0] and my text size settings[1].

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/PNH8zKk.jpg

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/Y07lEQE.jpg

Reply on news.ycombinator.com