...Swiping left/right to the notifications is more intuitive and less error prone than the previous swipe from the bottom. It has one drawback though: it now takes two actions to get to the notifications if you are inside a running application. You need to edge-swipe back to home screen and then swipe left or right to the notifications. Still, I need the notifications much less often than I need to check the time or the signal strength, so a tradeof of two swipes here for a sigle half-swipe to see the home screen status bar feels like a huge win. ...