“Now that I’ve owned and used an iPhone 6 Plus for just over five months,” Jim Tanous writes for TekRevue, “it’s clear that Apple made two notable and, for me, frustrating mistakes with the design of its larger phone. While one of these mistakes will require a hardware refresh to rectify, at least one of them can be addressed via a software update.”
“Mistake 1: Lock button directly opposite the volume buttons. I don’t take issue with Apple’s decision to move the lock button to the side of the iPhone, but I’m now convinced that the company moved it to the absolutely worst position they could have chosen. As it stands, the lock button sits perfectly opposite the ‘volume up’ button located on the left side of the phone,” Tanous writes. “This creates a nice visual design that I’m sure Jony Ive is proud of, but it makes for terrible usability… More than half of the times I attempt to lock my iPhone, I get inadvertent volume changes. It works the other way, too, with attempts to raise the volume far too frequently resulting in unintentional triggering of the lock or sleep function.”
MacDailyNews Take: Agreed.
“Mistake 2: No independent rotation lock for iPhone 6 Plus home screen,” Tanous writes. “One of the few differences between the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus is that the home screen of the latter device can rotate into a landscape orientation. Some users may prefer the look of this mode, and there are some unique features associated with it, but there’s no way to lock or disable home screen rotation on its own. You’re only able to lock screen rotation system-wide, or not at all.”
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