I'm looking for the term of the UI element Apple is using pretty often lately. On iPads you can see them on the top of windows to symbolize that the user can drag this. On the iPhone X it replaced the home button. I started to use this also and I don't know how I should call it and on Apple's documentation I couldn't find anything about this. It kinda reminds me of a pill or something.
In its documentation, Apple seems to refer to these in vague words, as indicators. The bottom bar doesn't seem to have an official label. From Daring Fireball:
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.)
