Button behavior and response in portrait and landscape

Button disctraction 😕

Here’s the thing that disctracts me every time I watch a video, I accidently turn volume down while I intended to turn it up. This is because for most videos I turn my iPhone to landscape mode, as a lot of people do. When I turn my iPhone right to landscape, things work like they should. The volume button on the right does what I expect it to do, it turns volume up. And the button on the left of the top of the phone turns – you guess it – volume down. Everything works like I expected and learned in my 26 years on this planet. But when I turn my iPhone left to landscape things get fucked up! As learned and without actually thinking about it my thumb gets on to the right button on the bottom of the device and press it with the intention to turn volume up. Now guess what’s happenin’ volume turns down instead of up. The buttons don’t function like I expected and learned. Try it yourself, if it doesn’t seems wired to you, you may have learned a new behavior just for your phone.