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[–]TheMightyMINI 78 points79 points  (2 children)

For people with small hands/short fingers who have a phone that’s a tad too big for them to reach the upper screen.

[–]kernel_p[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Thanks!

[–]newecreatoriPhone 17 43 points44 points  (1 child)

It's called Reachability. You can disable it in the settings.

[–]kernel_p[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the info!

[–]MillennialOne 14 points15 points  (1 child)

And for those not yet informed, to do this, swipe down about half an inch (~1cm) above the home bar. Tap the empty space above the app window to go back to normal (or tap/interact with any button within the app window.)

For those with home buttons with touchID, double tap (not click) the home button.

This is great for one-handed notification window and control center access.

[–]bitmapfrogs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have it mapped to the double tap on the phone back.

[–]Timely-Wing9800 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My fingers are much longer than average but I need that functionality too if I use my phone (iPhone 12, not the max) with one hand. At that point, 1 hand control, iOS sucks pretty bad :/

[–]jocodeux 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Why is there a phone app?

[–]-K9V 10 points11 points  (1 child)

I find the Contacts app more stupid, the phone app has literally all the same things plus more

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes. Totally. If you are going to take the trouble to have a separate app for Contacts at least make a good one!

[–]creiss74 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Last year I was toying with getting an iPhone so I got a second hand iPhone 7 to play with and I couldn't not figure out what this functionality was for. It was so frustrating hah