The public beta variant of Apple ’s newest mobile operating system , Io 12,is now out in the wild , and I could n’t wait to get my hand on it to come up out whether Apple had really fixedthe most annoying affair about using the iPhone X — screenshots — as we expect it would when the developer genus Beta became available last month .
It did , sort of . For some hoi polloi , in some scenarios . But for this iPhone X user at least , the problem is still very much alive .
As I wrote just days before Apple showed off iOS 12 to the world , taking a screenshot on the iPhone X is simply too easy . In the absence of a home button , you just press the ripe - side quietus button and the volume - up button , and voila , you have a screenshot . The progeny is , for meandcountlessothers , these buttons are localise exactly where your thumb and arrow finger go when you moderate the phone of course , making it frustratingly well-situated to accidentally wage the screenshot feature . You then either have to begrudgingly click through the few steps to delete the errant screenshot or just live with your storage filling up with useless images . ( My screenshots folder currently has more than 120 inadvertent screenshots that I plainly lack the solitaire to clear out . )
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While plenty of readers told me ( both seriously and jokingly ) that I simply “ hold the phone damage , ” the job was apparently enough of an outlet for Apple to address it with a tweak to the screenshot functionality in iOS 12 . Now , rather allowing you to take a screenshot anytime , the characteristic is turn off when the screen is asleep . That means , if you ’re fumbling for your phone in your cup of tea or purse , there ’s less of a chance that you ’ll incidentally rupture a screenshot . That ’s good ! Progress ! But it ’s almost meaningless to me .
In my experience over the retiring nearly eight calendar month of having an iPhone X , accidental screenshots always happen when the cover is already on . Either I ’m just holding it and mash the phone a bit too firmly , senselessly pressing the release . Or when I pluck up my phone in the sunrise to plough off my alarm ( which turns on the screen ) . Or when I ’m turning the intensity up . Or , most often , when I ’m trying to put the screen to sleep , urge on the right clit with one finger while pressing on the other side for leverage , attain the intensity - up button in the process . In exactly zero of these scenarios will the pinch to the screenshot feature in iOS 12 blockade me from taking more inadvertent screenshots .
What I was really look for from Apple was a way to move around the screenshot feature off alone — just a little toggle that lets me switch it on and off as I please . Hell , they could add an on / off button to Control Center , right next to the flashlight . If that would n’t work for some pattern or engineering science grounds I ’m incognizant of , perhaps they could make it a motion rather than clitoris - activated . But no , Apple just barely limited the scenario in which you might mistakenly hit the pestiferous clit combo .
Of course , this is still the beta variation of iOS 12 we ’re talking about , and Apple could vagabond out a more robust jam at any point . And I am happy that the Cupertino crew is at least take heed to those of us beset by this annoying . But for now , we ’ll just have to keep to live with the one thing that makes the serious phone I ’ve ever used a annoyance in the ass .
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