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Originally Posted by johnnyb
iOS 12 runs fine here on an iPhone 7 and iPad Pro 10.5" but I too think that the new gestures are a major pita for the home button iPads, a stupid design decision that mainly makes the OS on the iPad feel less well-crafted (which is probably the purpose). All of the changes to input are completely unnecessary and in no way an improvement over the status quo.
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I haven't tried out the new gestures yet, but many of the old ones were total crap IMO. I really don't think Apple understands accessibility very well. I'm older at 60, and I have arthritis fairly bad, so many of the gestures are literally a PITHand to me, and some are pretty much impossible. An easy one to accomplish in theory is the swiping up from the bottom of the screen to display the Control Center. On my iPhone 7 it takes me 6 or 7 attempts to get this to work. WTH! In iOS they improved this for the iPads only by allowing a quick swipe down from the top-right of the screen, and that works really well. But you cannot do that on the iPhone, so even in iOS 12 getting the Control Center to display remains a PITA. Heaven forbid I turn on the LED light then accidentally close the CC, it will take me a minute or two to get it to display again so I can turn the light off. Try operating the camera app with one hand...
Apple really needs to talk with real Baby Boomers like me to figure out what they can do to ensure we can operate their devices. We aren't Millennials by any means, not even close, try 40+ years older. A couple of guys from the Baby Boomer generation founded Apple, and the Baby Boomers kept Apple alive for over a quarter of a century while they went through their terrible years. Not until Jobs returned did Apple ever start to be a formidable power in the industry. They owe us a lot because if we had turned our backs on them in the 1980s and 1990s the Millennials would think of Apple as a grocery store item or a type of pie and nothing more.