I think the number of top-down swipes in iPadOS is confusing and annoying, and I'm not that much more than half the age my dad reached. There's a very good chance his muscle-memory skills will translate just fine, but I suspect you are right about swiping up.įWIW I think swipes starting "beyond the screen", as the Palm guys used to say, is a bad design. He would likely know how to use a mobile in an emergency, but of course the day he first wandered off and completely disappeared for hours, he didn't think that was an emergency at all!Īs another poster says, I would take this opportunity to upgrade to the last SE with a button while you can. He would forget to charge them, lose the chargers etc., and sometimes would confuse charge and signal strength, or assume he had to switch off the phone to save money. He could do that only fitfully despite some great device designs, and he would reject them quickly. He carried on using that for several years, delighted to be able to email people, until his interest in using the PC began to drift as he got to 90, mostly I think because it became more difficult for him to read (it is amazing how much the eye's transmission of/sensitivity to light changing over time makes interfaces more difficult or can even make them seem "new", and that is when the interfaces were not changing or doing unpredictable things).īut we never managed to really get him to use a mobile phone. Luckily when his previous email client became unworkable and confusing we managed to switch him to google mail (which I could more easily help with remotely) and he could be talked through the TeamViewer settings. I kept a PC working for my Dad the hard way for years.
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