By John Gruber
Little Streaks: The to-do list that helps your kids form good routines and habits.
Apple seems to be going out of its way not to give the horizontal bar at the bottom of the iPhone X user interface a name. For example, in the “getting started” pamphlet that ships in the iPhone X box, they don’t give it a name. They just show a picture of it, with an arrow indicating the gesture, and say “Swipe up to go home.”
Those of us who write about these things need a name for it, though. I suggest “home indicator”. In Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines for iPhone X, they use a similar but more verbose construction: “the indicator for accessing the Home screen”.
Update: It’s also called the home “indicator” in the UIKit APIs. (Thanks to Sachin Patel.)
★ Wednesday, 1 November 2017