The thing that kills me about touch uis is the chance that this problem can happen at all. For some unknown reason designers insist on putting most controls at the top of the screen. I guess because that’s where they usually are on desktop but when you think about it, it makes no sense. All the controls get put exactly in the place where you can’t reach them easily on most devices. Where you’re likely to misclick on notifications because they’re in the same spot. Where your hand will be covering most of the screen when you reach for them. It would make so much more sense to put controls at the bottom, content at the top. You could reach them without stretching, you wouldn’t cover the screen with your hand to reach them, and they wouldn’t conflict with pop down notification systems. Why on earth are all the controls still at the top?!?