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My previous phone - Asus Zenfone - featured the one-hand mode, where you scale whole viewport down and move it on the screen as you see fit. See this image:

https://www.technokick.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/DSCN79...

Maybe not beautiful but it was practical in some cases.

More vendors should ship things like this. But the companies value fake visual niceness over usability so I'm not holding my breath.

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LineageOS has a left/right hand mode. Basically the screen gets resized to about 75% of the size, with the top right (for left hand mode) or top left (for right hand mode) becoming black. It can be activated by swiping from left to right / right to left on the bottom bar.

iOS has Reachability[1] which is a similar solution the same problems.

The problem with solutions like this is that they are often hard to discover.

1: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph77bcdd132/13...

I find it interesting that it is supported on a 6s, but not an SE.

I assume it is because the screen is the ‘correct’ size on the SE.

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