{"id":179287,"date":"2021-02-16T08:49:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T05:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/android-12s-rumored-one-handed-mode-could-make-big-phones-more-usable\/"},"modified":"2021-02-16T08:49:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T05:49:15","slug":"android-12s-rumored-one-handed-mode-could-make-big-phones-more-usable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/android-12s-rumored-one-handed-mode-could-make-big-phones-more-usable\/","title":{"rendered":"#Android 12\u2019s rumored one-handed mode could make big phones more usable"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Android 12\u2019s rumored one-handed mode could make big phones more usable<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n People love big phones, and companies oblige that demand by releasing devices with monster screens. Heck, even the \u201cmid-sized\u201d iPhone 12 has a 6.1-inch screen.<\/p>\n
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\nPhones with big displays give you more screen estate to view content bigly, stack two app<\/a>s in the splitscreen mode, and pack more icons on a page. But sometimes it\u2019s really hard to reach across the screen with one hand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Thankfully, iPhones have a one-handed mode<\/a> which you can activate by swiping down on the bottom edge of the screen. Now, Android\u2019s next version could get a similar option too.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>iPhone\u2019s reachability mode for one-handed usage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to a report by XDA Developers<\/a>, Google is set to include its own implementation of the one-handed mode in the open-source version of Android (AOSP). This means that any phone maker loading Android 12 on their devices will be able to use this out of the box.<\/p>\n

The report notes that this feature will shrink the screen size to 40% of the original display to help you reach out to different areas easily. There will be a gesture setting that will let you configure how to trigger the one-handed mode.<\/p>\n

Manufacturers such as Samsung<\/a> and Huawei<\/a> already have their own version of this feature. But Google\u2019s implementation might make it accessible to more people. A search on GSMArena tells me that more than 300 phones launched last year had a display larger than 6.5 inches. So, Google\u2019s upcoming feature would be really handy for these devices.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t have any visual reference to how Android 12\u2019s one-handed mode might look. Hopefully, Google will release the first developer preview soon so we can try it ourselves.<\/p>\n

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\n Published February 16, 2021 \u2014 05:49 UTC\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n