Use Reachability with iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus to Improve Single-Handed Usage

The larger screen displays of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus make them beautiful to view apps, text, and images on, but some users find that using the devices with a single hand is a bit more challenging. But one-handed usage of the larger screen iPhone models is made considerably easier thanks to the help of a feature called Reachability. Reachability basically pulls everything from the top of the screen down to the bottom of the screen, and it works anywhere in iOS, whether you’re on the Home Screen or in any app.

Using Reachability on the big screen iPhones is really easy, though it make take a little bit of practice to figure out how to use it properly, and also to get using it right.

Double-tap on the Home button to switch into Reachability mode

This makes and have all the screen content arrive at the bottom of the display, making it really easy for one-handed users to reach what was once on the top of the screen, which is now near the bottom and easily in thumbs reach.

When any onscreen element is touched in Reachability, the screen returns to normal and exits reachability. This is an important aspect of how the feature works, because everything will snap back to full-size view. Thus if you want to reach something at the top of the screen yet again, you’d want to double-tap on the Home button again.

It’s worth pointing out that you can also exit out of Reachability without interacting with any onscreen elements by simply double-tapping the Home button again.

The brief video below demonstrates accessing Reachability, using it, and exiting out of it.

Finally, we should distinguish between a double-tap on the Home button and a double-click, the two are not the same, the latter is physically depressing the Home button. The tap that we use here is very much a tap, like that used when interacting the touchscreen itself, simply a light touch on the Home button. Two of those light touches concurrently will enter and exit from Reachability.

Source from http://osxdaily.com

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