According to rumors, the iPhone 8 will have a "notch" in the center of the iOS status bar at the top of the screen, and Max Rudberg has made several
His sketches are full of good ideas about potential interface changes on the iPhone 8, which will provide more convenient control from the bottom of the screen.
For illustrations, he used screenshots of the Top Charts section of the App Store.
As you can see for yourself, he proposed an option witha divided status bar, and a title bar can be integrated into it, and the operation will be located below the virtual Home button in the middle and control along the edges.
From left to right: App Store on iPhone 7 with a regular interface; separation due to "notch" on iPhone 8; inconspicuous "notch"; inconspicuous "notch" and inconspicuous bottom line.
For example, the "All Categories" and "Applications" tabs in the App Store can be moved down, so using the applications in one-handed operation mode will be easier.
At the bottom there may be quick ways to call different applications, as in the new touchbar on the MacBook Pro.
Rudberg says: “I used to like an idea with an inconspicuous status bar, but after these sketches I’m not sure anymore. Thus, the screen seems smaller than it actually is, and the result is not worth it. Now I am inclined to believe that Apple will leave "notch". "
Moving the control of the title bar to the bottom will not be so difficult for application creators, since the UIKit program can easily change the interface of applications created in Xcode.
Of course, at the moment these are just assumptions, and we do not know anything about the iOS changes that can be presented with the release of the iPhone 8.
Designer Brad Ellis tends tocompletely remove the control line, as in Android, because with the increase in screens, the distance between our thumbs and the control at the very top also increases.
He wrote on the Medium blog that Apple needs to stop placing important buttons at the top of the screen, as "the best control is the one to get to."