There are going to be occasions whenever you’ve solely bought one hand free to make use of your telephone. Chances are you’ll be strolling the canine, carrying groceries, hanging on to a subway pole, otherwise you simply don’t have one other hand obtainable. However with nearly each fashionable telephone sporting a display screen no less than six inches nook to nook, utilizing one hand to work your telephone might be a tough balancing act.
Fortunately, each Android and iOS telephones include built-in options to make one-handed telephone use much less tough. There are additionally some useful choices inside particular person apps you possibly can flip to.
Strategies for Android telephones
One-handed mode
Android has a devoted one-handed mode that permits you to shrink any app all the way down to the underside half of the display screen to make it simpler to succeed in. The way in which to allow that mode could be barely completely different, relying on the producer.
Both approach, you possibly can then merely swipe down on the display screen to tug the highest half of an app into attain. Ensure you swipe down near the underside of the display screen, as in any other case, you’ll merely refresh the display screen in no matter app you’re in. Faucet wherever above the app to return to a full-screen view.
Allow a one-handed keyboard
No matter app you’re in, you may make positive Android’s default Gboard keyboard is simpler to get to for one set of fingers and a thumb. With the keyboard on display screen:
The keyboard then pushes up in opposition to one facet of the display screen. Faucet the arrow button to change it to the opposite facet or the broaden button (4 arrows) to return to regular. (You don’t get this on the default Samsung keyboard on Galaxy telephones, however you possibly can at all times set up Gboard on any Android telephone.)
Make homescreen apps simpler to entry
It helps if the app shortcuts you depend on most frequently are down in direction of the underside of your house display screen, moderately than up on the prime. You possibly can arrange this manually, however on Pixel telephones you may also have a row of your most-used apps pop all the way down to the underside.
Make looking simpler
In case you’ve bought a Samsung telephone and you employ the Samsung Web Browser, you possibly can transfer the online handle and search bar all the way down to the underside of the display screen as effectively. (Weirdly sufficient, Chrome for Android doesn’t at the moment allow you to do that, although Chrome for iOS does — go determine.)
(Observe: Some Android telephones is not going to have the Present toolbar at backside function listed.)
You’ll find the identical choice inside Firefox for Android: faucet the three dots (prime proper), then Settings > Customise and select Backside for the toolbar.
Strategies for iPhones
If iOS is your cellular platform of alternative, you are able to do lots of the similar methods as you possibly can on Android.
One-handed mode
The one-handed mode that covers the entire of iOS is known as Reachability. You’ll find it from Settings in your iPhone:
A downward swipe towards the underside of the display screen will then shrink down no matter app or system menu you’ve got on display screen, making it simpler to get at with one hand. Faucet the arrow on the prime of the window to return to regular.
One-handed keyboard
The iOS keyboard has a one-handed mode as effectively. With the keyboard on display screen:
You need to use the white arrow that fills the area left by the keyboard to return to the conventional format once more.
Make looking simpler
As talked about above, Chrome for iOS allows you to transfer the handle and search bar all the way down to the underside of the display screen:
That is the format Safari for iOS makes use of by default. If it’s been modified for no matter motive, you possibly can reset it by way of Safari in iOS Settings, below the Tabs heading.